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By Dan Rattiner
Efforts are proceeding
toward the first test of the
East Hampton Hook Mill.
Should the tests be successful, the wind-powered
structure should be operational in time to light up
all
the
downtown
Christmas tree lights on
Main Street and all the
other decorations. This
will be the first time ever
that a windmill has powered an entire downtown
in the United States.
As I am sure you know,
several local developers,
Harold
Edison
and
Thomas Tesla approached
the Village of East
Hampton about buying
the Hook Mill, the centerpiece of downtown since
1806, last year, and for a

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The Hook Mill, as it is, and as it was

variety of reasons, the Village agreed.
“It was a good way to bring in money to bolster the sagging village budget,” a spokesperson
for the village said. “And it was for a good cause.
Wind power. Something we have in abundance.”
Thus was formed Hook Mill Light and Power.
As you can see from the two photos, quite a lot
of renovation has been taking place. New gears
and wheels have been installed made from

mahogany, a very hard
wood, which will be lubricated with a special mix of
silicone and oil, allowing
them to operate very fast
without overheating and
with virtually no friction.
The gears—which respond
to the slightest breezes
that might turn the sails—
are attached to the old
shaft, which is in perfect
condition and in no need of
being replaced. Even a
five-mile an hour puff of
wind will be able to get the
sails turning for five or six
hours, even if there is no
further wind at all. Such
are the latest and most
recent developments in the
field of wind power.
Underground, beneath
the windmill—which has
been raised up to the 10-foot
height that you see today—are the batteries,
generators and wires that will store and pump
out the kilowatts to power the town.
The first test of the project is scheduled for
October 27, a Wednesday, when the tourist traffic in town is minimal, and when, if things go
wrong, there will be the least damage to the
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Hamptons regular Mayor Bloomberg has
Amagansett’s Matthew Broderick in mind to
play Steven Rattner, the ex-car czar now in
trouble with the SEC, in an upcoming movie.
Broderick responded, “Other people have told me
I look like him,” and “a part’s a part.”
*
*
*
Southampton restaurant, 75 Main, hosted an
exclusive evening fête to celebrate the
Hamptons International Film Festival premiere
of The King’s Speech. Among the guests were
Harvey Weinstein, Stanley Tucci and the
film’s director, Tom Hooper.
*
*
*
Bridgehampton’s Madonna has a new beau:
33-year-old choreographer Brahim Rachiki. The
pair met while Rachiki was working on the pop
star’s Sticky & Sweet tour.
*
*
*
Whoopi Goldberg and Hamptons resident
Joy Behar walked off stage during a taping of
“The View” last week. The co-hosts were upset
with comments made by guest Bill O’Reilly. In
response, fellow South Forker Barbara Walters
said she loves her colleagues, but that a walk out
shouldn’t have happened.
*
*
*
Known for his famous white parties, East
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benefiting 1 in 9: The Long Island Breast Cancer
Action Coalition.
*
*
*
Mark Feuerstein, Paolo Costanzo,
Reshma Shetty and other cast members of
USA’s “Royal Pains” filmed in Mattituck last
week. Director and Executive Producer Michael
Rauch worked with local business owners like
the Love Lane Kitchen, the Country Pet and
Love Lane Sweet Shoppe to make the quaint
street look like Main Street, Southampton.
*
*
*
Amagansett’s Alec Baldwin has signed on for
(continued on page 20)

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The station will have new call letters, but not
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Dan’s Papers October 22, 2010 danshamptons.com Page 11

No to Yacht Club
Southampton Must Reverse Plan for Exclusive Club on Public Land
By Dan Rattiner
Fifty years ago, a group of local men built a
small “Yacht Club” down at the end of Bay Lane
in Mecox where that road meets the bay. It was
not much of a Yacht Club. It consisted of a small
building about 240 square feet in size with a
front deck that faced out into the bay. There was
no dock, but from alongside the club you could
drag a sunfish across the little front lawn, down
across a small pebble beach and into the water.
Inside the club were lifejackets, a few chairs
and tables and a place where those who built it
and their friends could socialize. Flapping out
front at the top of a metal flagpole was the
Yacht Club flag, probably something the group
had sewn. It was rare that there were more
than six people down there at any one time.
Another six would be out there sailing.
The winters were another matter. On days
when the bay froze over, other local men, usually farmers, brought down on the back of trucks

fast iceboats they had constructed in their
garages and barns inland. On certain days (and
I was down there as a reporter and photographer for Dan’s Papers, slipping out onto the ice
to cover this), the boats would zip along silently
at nearly 30 miles an hour. What a thrilling
thing that was. As for the “club” it would either
be locked up or open, if the ice boaters got permission from the owner to use it to get out of the
wind.
Sometime around 1980, the property with the
“yacht club” on it got sold to a developer. It was
the hope of this developer to tear the building
down and in its place put a mansion. But that
never happened. Whether the plot was too small
or there were too many restrictions, I do not
know. But the fact is that sometime around
2000 the developer stopped paying taxes and
the property was seized by the county, which
gave it to Southampton Town. It is town land
today, waterfront, with an abandoned and sag-

ging Yacht Club building now surrounded by
cattails and weeds. The old metal flagpole from
which the flag flew is there too, but now leaning
to the west.
About four months ago, a group of people,
probably the children of those down there so
long ago, approached the town about letting
them revive their “club.”
A lot has change in 50 years. Mecox Bay Lane,
which is the name of this dead end street, is just
a quarter mile to its dead end from where it
branches off from Mecox Road. Back then the
land on both sides was in potato fields. There
were, at most, half a dozen homes on the road.
Today, Mecox Bay Lane has about 50 homes on
it, almost all of which are tucked in behind high
hedgerows to insure privacy. The wide-open
spaces that allowed you to see for miles are
gone. Everybody, as they say, “has theirs.” It’s
another world.
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SHINING A LIGHT ON THE MOVIE STARS AT HIFF
By Dan Rattiner
The most fascinating thing about this
year’s Hampton International Film Festival
was that all of the Hollywood players were
actually here to meet and greet. Madonna
was here, she said, to meet Darren Aronofsky,
the director of The Wrestler and Requiem for
a Dream. Aronofsky was here to see the premiere of his newest movie, Black Swan, starring Natalie Portman. Madonna said she had
an idea for a project she wanted to talk to
him about. Julian Schnabel, who produced
and directed Miral, starring Freida Pinto,
had planned to lead a small panel discussion

but had to cancel at the last minute. Stanley
Tucci had a panel discussion.
All these people, and about 25,000 more,
were in and out of the stores and eateries in
our communities, enjoying our spectacular
scenery and picturesque downtowns. Christie
Brinkley went to see King of the Hamptons.
The only controversy that came out of all
this involved texting. The big shots obeyed
the rules about no cell phones during the
showing of the movies. But since texting wasn’t mentioned, that went on, with the light
from the cell phones annoying some of the
other theatergoers in the darkness of the the-

atre. Harvey Weinstein was guilty of it. Alec
Baldwin was too. People threw M & Ms at
Baldwin and he finally got the message.
One old timer said that the only people in
the theatre allowed to shine flashlights
should be ushers leading you to your seats. Of
course there weren’t any.
Attempts were made to control the
paparazzi but they were not always successful. Somebody important would cross the
street, and as they did a herd of people with
cameras flashing followed behind and, sometimes, right in front of them.
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Yacht Club

(continued from previous page)

The dead end, at this point, is still a place
where you can drag a boat into the bay. And if
you look carefully, off to the left, you can see the
yacht club, still standing, proudly, sort of.
The town looked at this proposal, and for
some reason, decided to consider it. Their reasoning involved a flaw. Here was a waterfront
property owned by the people of the town. The
town had no money to fix the place up. Here was
a group that wanted to. If it didn’t cost the town
anything, why not?
Well, why not? Because at the end of every
day, the group that would get the license to run
it would lock it up until morning, and then reopen it for the members who financed the repair
of it. From the members’ perspective, they
would be restoring the proud tradition of the
Yacht Club. From the taxpayers’ perspective,
they would be locked out of a town-owned property. That was the flaw.
Needless to say, the people on Mecox Bay
Lane, who are among the taxpayers, screamed
bloody murder. But they seemed to miss the
point. Most of the objections were built around
the idea that restoring the days of yore would be
illegal. Not enough parking. The wetlands desecrated. Trucks with boats on them going up and
down their little lane. Better to have a sailing
pavilion up on the bayside of Scott Cameron
Beach down by the ocean in Mecox. That would
be better. But not here. Over there. And you
know what? It’s an eyesore. Knock the building
down. We can still launch boats at the dead end.
That should be the end of it. Nobody else needs

to know about it or use it, except us.
The town to their credit, sort of, did try to wiggle around the basic flaw with the “Yacht Club”
people. The Yacht Club would be a non-profit. It
would offer sailing classes to the children of the
town on a regular basis all summer. As for the
“slips”—apparently the plan would include a
dock with slips—the members would have them
of course, but if one dropped out in one particular year the new members would be chosen by
lottery from a waiting list. The model the Town
Recreation Department was looking at was how
you run a town-owned marina.
In other words, it would still remain a private
club.
I went down there on Tuesday, October 15, at
five in the afternoon at high tide to look around
and tromp through the weeds to the clubhouse.
Two things. One is that the weeds and cattails
on the property really are not part of wetlands.
They are on solid dry ground of what used to be
front lawn. I think that is not a problem. As for
flooding, there do not appear to be any watermarks on the little club building. And it’s been
there 50 years. As for “restoring” the little building, it’s really a do-over. The foundations were
wood and have rotted. The rest of it sort of leans
a bit. It would be quite a stretch to make this be
proper enough to pass code. Still, it could be
done by simply doing the whole thing over. At
today’s prices, it would probably cost $40,000.
The truth is that the Town owns this property. It is special, it’s theirs and they should do
something with it to benefit the people who own

it—the taxpayers.
I think they should turn away the Yacht Club
proposal though. I think I have a better idea,
and it still would not cost the town any money.
My thinking is that it should be very low key
and very small. It is, after all, a very small
place. What goes on down there should not be
very highly publicized. And I think what it is
should not accommodate more than four cars at
a time.
My proposal is that the town restore the
building as a sort of screened-in pavilion or teahouse that could be rented out for special events
with a capacity not to exceed 15 people. It would
be locked up after sunset. It would have no electricity, but electric lights brought in would be
allowable. There would be a portable toilet on
the lawn in the back. There would be a payphone. Anyone without a cell phone could make
a phone call to the town, where a clerk would
have, among their other duties, the job of keeping track of its rental use and who gets to use it
when. There would be a charge to reserve it.
Otherwise, anyone could sit in it during the
daylight hours. There would be no need for
employees, other than those going down there
to keep it clean and maintain it—whose salaries
would be paid by the fees for those reserving it.
Alongside the pavilion, the town should build
kayak and sunfish racks. The town could either
rent out a place on a rack for a modest sum per
year or just leave it all be and let it be first come
first serve. People could padlock their sunfish
and kayaks, or not. Of course, sailors could still
haul boats down there both winter and summer.
As for a sailing club, if a sailing instructor
wanted to pay a fee to keep boats on the lawn
and put a locker alongside for lifejackets etc., it
could be just that much more income for the
town.
I propose that a foundation be created by private citizens to raise the small sums needed to
make the initial restoration. There might be a
fundraiser. This would not be a club. It would be
something the public could enjoy.
Here are lots of examples of various amenities
already in place, large and small, that offer
ideas on how this might be made to happen.
On Sammy’s Beach in East Hampton, the
town provides racks for sunfish and kayaks to
be kept while not gliding around on Three Mile
Harbor.
In Maidstone Park, there are several open
pavilions for public use, which the public can
reserve from time to time by calling a town
clerk.
In East Hampton Village, there is a duck pond
on David’s Lane, an upscale residential street.
There is parking there only for four cars.
Parents can take their kids there to walk the
trails around this natural pond and observe
nature, or feed the ducks that are in it.
In Southampton, the Village has benches and
seating facing the water in and adjacent to the
Lake Agawam Park War Memorial.
In Bridgehampton, you can reserve the
Bridgehampton Community House for a day for
about $650. Just call Southampton Town and
they will connect you to someone who will take
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town.
In anticipation of that, several things were
installed on the site just this past week. Strong,
flexible, aluminum and rubber “suspenders”
were attached to the top of the mill and then to
stakes that go into the ground on all sides. This
is to prevent the mill from leaving the ground
when it is turned on. It will shake. But it will
not be able to move.
Secondly, a split rail fence was put up just last
week surrounding the mill to keep dogs and
small children from getting too near. When the
mill is started up and the first winds come, the
sails will be turning so fast as to be invisible to
the naked eye. A person or animal could be
severely injured by inadvertently walking into

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these sails. And so we have the split rail fence to
keep everybody out.
The sails themselves will be attached during
the next two weeks. At the present time, they
are receiving their final touches at the
Brookhaven National Lab up the island which
has taken a serious interest in this project and
which has won the bid to get them ready. The
wood for the sail frames, I am told, is to be made
of a secret combination of PVC plastic, PVP
pressed wood and aluminum to give the lightest, fastest reaction possible to wind. The bid for
the sails themselves was won by the America’s
Cup sailing team Alinghi from Switzerland.
Some of their sails will be carefully cut to size,
sent over on a Virgin Air charter and then

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Hamptons International Film Festival in its
category.
The atmosphere during the film festival
seemed to be dominated by deal making,
amusement and showmanship. It put me in
mind of the second of the Hampton Film
Festivals back in the 1990s. On the Saturday
of that festival, a woman on a bicycle showed
up and spent much of the day biking up and
down Main Street. She wore the skimpiest of
bikinis. Spangles glittered all over her body.
And on her back were butterfly wings that
could flap in time to her pedaling. As I recall,
it was a promotion for a short film about butterflies.
The town police by the end of the day decided to pack her up and send her biking out of
town. She was last seen fluttering west down
the
Montauk
Highway
toward
Bridgehampton.
Oddly, the signature event of the Film
Festival didn’t occur in the Hamptons, at all,
or even in New York City.
On the Monday of the festival, down in
Philadelphia, a man whipped off all his
clothes and ran around for a few moments
naked except for a pair of sneakers about 15
feet from where President Obama was giving
a speech to some young people.
It was all caught on videotape, which was
sort of the idea. You can see pieces of it on
Youtube. The man, a fellow named Juan J.
Rodriguez,
shouted
the
word
“battlecam.com” six times very loudly, then
fell to his knees and put his hands behind his
head to await arrest.
“I just hoped I wouldn’t get shot or
lasered,” he told reporters later when the
Secret Service came trotting over.

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home in the basements of their houses during
the first tests.
Edison and Tesla, the co-partners in Hook
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test shows that this single windmill cannot
power the entire downtown, it will still make
enough power to be a backup generator with its
underground batteries able to provide power for
the whole downtown during LIPA blackouts. So
that’s something.
Further windmill power projects are scheduled for Bridgehampton, Southampton and
Shelter Island. Attempts to hook up with the
Village of Sag Harbor however were a failure
when it was found out that the windmill down
by Long Wharf is just a fake.
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Mimics in the Wild
Pretending to be Someone Else Can Get You What You Want
By Dan Rattiner
One of the more interesting things I have
noticed in all the years I have been monitoring
the rich and famous in the Hamptons is just how
cute, loveable and smart many of them seem to
be. It’s not an act, or at least it’s not a conscious
act.
What I have concluded is that ugly, dumb and
nasty doesn’t make it on the road to success.
Good looking, dumb and nasty doesn’t either, but
it’s a little better, and so forth and so on.
Eventually you come to cute, smart and loveable.
And it is those people who attract others to come
around them and provide a support system for
them. Bingo! Success follows.

I should note as a kind of asterisk that separate from all of this often comes craftiness, particularly in the financial world. It’s not the greatest trait there is. But if it comes with cute, smart
and loveable, they get what they want and sometimes you don’t but that’s okay. It’s still nice to be
around cute, smart and loveable. So you forgive
it.
I should write a book about this.
Recently, I read an article about how this plays
out in nature. It’s really fascinating. And it does
remind me of some of the relationships I have
had with girlfriends over the years. If I’d only
known then what I know now after reading this
article, well, but I digress.

So here’s the thing.
It was about a year ago, and a bunch of anthropologists were in a rainforest in Brazil observing
through field glasses a bunch of small dark monkeys known as tamarins who were eating some
figs high up in a fig tree.
They were up there munching away when both
the monkeys and the anthropologists heard the
unmistakable sound, a sort of clicking sound,
being vocalized by one or more adolescent
tamarins moving along the ground. What were
they doing down there instead of high up safe in
the trees, the tamarins asked themselves. One of
the adult monkeys began sniffing the air, anoth(continued on page 18)

WAS MISSING MAN ON HIS WAY HERE ?
By David Lion Rattiner
This story really just can’t get any stranger. A
man in Michigan has completely disappeared. By
all accounts, David Widlak seems like an
American success story. He is the President of
Community Central Bank, he is a member of a
private club in Michigan’s Macomb County, and
by most standards, is considered a wealthy man.
And there is an East Hampton connection.
The story begins on September 19, when
Widlak just disappeared from his office in Mount
Clemens, Michigan. Fox News in Detroit reported that his office had been ransacked, but nobody
could tell if it was he who had taken everything
from it, or if it was somebody else. Even odder
about the whole incident, police officers in the
Macomb County Sheriff’s Office have been in
touch with East Hampton Town Police because
one of the last things that Widlak searched for on
his Apple iPad was the Maidstone Club in the

Village of East Hampton. According to a
spokesperson at the Maidstone Club, nobody
remembers ever speaking with a Mr. Widlak, and
nobody has any record of him being there, other
than a call he placed to the club that did not provide any new information on his whereabouts.
How he was discovered missing was very interesting. Police got a 911 call from a maintenance
person after he noticed Widlak’s car parked at
his office building overnight, and when he went
inside to say hello, he found Widlak’s office to be
a complete mess.
Widlak didn’t seem to have any major problems. The bank he worked for had a zero star rating, but was apparently working through the
recession. Another possible connection to his disappearance was a lawsuit that had nothing to do
with the bank he works for, but rather, happened
at the time he was a conservator for Elizabeth
Cerget, who was found dead in her garbage filled

home in 2008. Widlak was an attorney back then,
and is alleged to have borrowed about $150,000
from Cerget’s estate when he was her conservator to invest in a computer warranty business
that went belly up.
The investigation continues, and now, three
weeks later, there is more news. The family of
David Widlak has offered a reward to anybody
who can help them find him. The reward is
$10,000 but no substantial information has come
in since that was announced. The bank has also
publicly stated that David Widlak is “Still their
CEO,” and stressed that he has only been missing for three weeks and that nothing has been
finalized yet on whether he is alive or dead.
The best tip police have been able to dig up so
far is that he was possibly spotted at a Buffalo
Wild Wings restaurant. None of his email
accounts have been used, his cell phone has not
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Life Spans
Blacks Live to 73, Whites 78, Hispanic Immigrants 82
By Dan Rattiner
The Centers for Disease Control issued the
results of a study last week which said that
Hispanic immigrants in the United States live
longer than anybody else.
The study was extensive and the margin of
error very low. It reported that blacks in
America live on average 73 years, whites on
average live 77 years and Hispanics live an
average of just under 82 years.
When you consider that particularly illegal
Hispanic immigrants in America have only limited access to good health care, you have to
wonder.
Theories abound.
One theory is that recent Hispanic immigrants must have come from a healthier stock

than others from Latin America to make the
arduous journey here.
An estimated 20% of the total number of
Hispanic immigrants are believed to have come
here illegally and are therefore hoping to
remain in the shadows.
Illegals will do almost anything not to be
noticed. Several winters ago, one of them drove
a car off an icy road in East Hampton near my
home and into the bay. I saw it splash in from
my window, called 911 and ran down to help.
Others were already there. But the female driver was almost refusing to allow herself to be
rescued from her sinking car. No problem, she
kept saying. I go home now. I fix this. We finally got her out to safety. Illegal immigrants, hoping to not be noticed, are in constant danger

from things the rest of us take for granted.
On the other hand, it also means they will do
almost anything to stay out of trouble. No driving while intoxicated, no drug dealing, no burglarizing, no public drinking displays. These
immigrants are just so happy to be in America.
And they don’t want to screw it up. There are
exceptions of course. But it’s a fact that here on
eastern Long Island where we have plenty of
illegal Hispanic immigrants as well legal
Hispanic immigrants, the police report lower
crime rates. Criminals have shorter average
lifespans.
Also, Hispanics work hard, often outdoors,
and they come from a land where people eat
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SAG HARBOR WILL MISS JOE SCHIAVONI
By T.J. Clemente
The death of Joe Schiavoni, born in the teeth
of the great depression in 1931 in Sag Harbor, is
the turning of yet another page of local history.
All over that town, the stories of his humanness,
his charity, his levity and his determination to
keep Sag Harbor the gem that it is, are ringing
around town like church bells.
The town grocer’s son who grew to become the
amicable town grocer himself now leaves his
sons, Michael and Andrew to that role. But the
story of Joe Schiavoni perhaps parallels many of
the changes the village of Sag Harbor endured.
His quiet, strong behind-the-scenes work helped
save Sag Harbor long before it became fashionable.

The Schiavoni family now well into its fifth
generation living in Sag Harbor is yet another
example of the settling power of roots in a community. There were no quick fix get rich and
move out of town aspirations but instead quite
the opposite. The family serves on the historic
board, chamber of commerce, church associations, volunteer fire department, village government and many other forums of community service. Joe himself many years back was even
involved with cub scouting. Those of Sag Harbor
know the good of their own, they know the real
quality neighbor and on that score Joe Schiavoni
leaves this earth in the highest regard.
In the middle of a tough campaign season
incumbent New York State Assemblyman Fred

Thiele took the time to talk about Joe
Schiavoni. “Joe Schiavoni was a community
treasure. He and his brother John built their
local market into a Sag Harbor institution,
always serving the community with a smile.
Schiavoni’s Market is a major part of the special
character of Sag Harbor. I will never forget the
kindness that both Joe and John showed to my
family, and in particular my mother. After my
father’s unexpected death in 1982, Joe hired my
Mom to run the Deli Department where she
worked for many years. It was a job she enjoyed
and cherished in her later years. Joe and John
made my Mom feel like a member of the family.”
And that’s because the family was and is Sag
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(continued from page 15)

er started moving around to find them. They’d
have to go down and get them
But from afar, the anthropologists saw that the
sounds being made were not coming from some
adolescent tamarins in need of being corrected,
but from a 40-pound cat, an ocelot, who was trying to lure one or more tamarins toward him so
he could attack and eat them.
The anthropologists stirred when they saw the
cat. And then, so did one of the male tamarins.
He let out a shriek and the whole lot of these
monkeys took off and got away to safety.
One of the anthropologists, Fabio Rohe of the
Wildlife Conservation Society, turned to some of
the others and said “I think we have just seen
something akin to the discovery of animals using

tools. We have to write this down.”
They did. And, a month later, what they wrote
appeared in the scientific journal Neotropical
Primates, which has prompted, over the last six
months, many other scientists from many other
fields of study to write up similar behaviors.
In the ant world, the workers are busy every
hour of the day building things for their queen,
but when they slow down, the queen gets them
going again by rubbing one of her mandibles up
and down along her ridged thorax. It makes a
kind of rhythmic marching sound, something
like castanets, and it excites the worker ants and
gets them all charged up to work faster.
There is an octopus that lives on the sea floor
in the South Pacific who is able to change color to

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match the environment it finds itself in, which is
something that has been observed for some time.
What was recently noticed was that when this
octopus gets up off the sea floor to jet around
more toward the water’s surface, it gives a little
shiver and suddenly it is all black and white
stripes—looking exactly like the dangerous and
poisonous lionfish. With this disguise, it gets others who might want to attack the octopus to
think better of it.
It’s also been noticed with this octopus that
when a damselfish comes near and just starts
annoying the octopus, the octopus will curl out a
tentacle into a greater length and make a kind of
bulge at the end. It looks like a sea snake, and
the bulge looks much like a sea snake’s head to
the damselfish. Sea snakes eat damselfish. The
damselfish scats.
There’s a kind of chittering sound that an
adult female cockroach makes to induce a male
cockroach to spread its wings—revealing all
sorts of protein and honey goodies he has collected under them. He gives this stuff to her, of
course. This has been known a while.
But what’s now been seen is baby cockroaches,
who normally make a much higher pitched chittering sound, making the lower sound of an adult
female in order to get the male to give up the
goodies. “Whatever works,” as my kids used to
say when they were little.
So I don’t know what the moral of this tale is,
except to say that if you meet the beautiful, loveable and smart Martha Stewart or somebody like
her, well, whatever happens, you’ll forgive her.
I guess it’s better than the alternative, which is
when dumb, ugly and nasty comes in, whacks
you over the head with a two by four, and makes
off with the stuff while you sit there horrified.
Welcome to the Hamptons, the back story.

Missing

(continued from page 15)

Wild Wings restaurant. None of his email
accounts have been used, his cell phone has not
been used, there has been no passport activity,
no money taken out of his bank accounts and he
has not contacted any family or friends since he
has gone missing.
One of the most startling parts to the case is
that, according to his financial records, he had
bought a semi-automatic handgun. When he
went missing, the gun was still in his office and
it was returned to the family. But that handgun
was not the only gun that Widlak owned. He
also owned an old revolver that was kept in his
home in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan.
According to his family, he was going to sell it
or give the gun away, but none of the family
members know where the old gun is. Police
have stated that the family has been very cooperative in the case.
A financial review of the bank’s books is currently underway by a firm named Plante &
Moran PLLC, and so far they have not found
anything unusual.
There are three scenarios that police are considering. 1. He committed suicide. 2. He was
murdered. 3. He is deliberately in hiding.
Have you seen this man? Maybe he’s on his
way here to join the Maidstone Club.

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TWENTY
SOMETHING
by David Lion Rattiner

RESTORED TO SANITY
On everybody’s mind right now is Jon
Stewart’s rally to restore sanity on October
30 at the National Mall in Washington D.C.
Even Oprah has gotten in on the action, and
I want to go.
Love him or hate him, Jon Stewart is sending a pretty clear message, “Be sane.”
Stewart’s website explains it best:

it anymore!
“Who among us has not wanted to open
their window and shout that at the top of
their lungs?
“Seriously, who?
“Because we’re looking for those people.
We’re looking for the people who think shouting is annoying, counterproductive, and terrible for your throat; who feel that the loudest
voices shouldn’t be the only ones that get
heard; and who believe that the only time it’s
appropriate to draw a Hitler mustache on
someone is when that person is actually
Hitler. Or Charlie Chaplin in certain roles.
“Are you one of those people? Excellent.
Then we’d like you to join us in Washington,
D.C. on October 30—a date of no significance
whatsoever—at “The Daily Show’s” ‘Rally to
Restore Sanity.’
“Ours is a rally for the people who’ve been
too busy to go to rallies, who actually have
lives and families and jobs (or are looking for

“I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take

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care of this.
In Springs, a private home on SpringsFireplace Road is now a very low-key museum
to Jackson Pollock. It was his home back in the
1940s and 1950s. People can come there by
appointment only. It is open a few hours a
week. It is run by a foundation that is part of
Stony Brook University. It does not seem to
disturb the residential community around it
much.

The

The Southampton Town Board should grow
up. They own this amenity. They should make
it into something very small, little known, but
special for those who do know about it. I think
it can be done without costing the taxpayers a
dime, as described above.
I am neither in favor of giving it away as a
private club or having it be hidden away
because the local residents do not want anybody at the end of the public road down there.

jobs)—not so much the Silent Majority as the
Busy Majority. If we had to sum up the political view of our participants in a single sentence… we couldn’t. That’s sort of the point.”
I’m a big fan of “The Daily Show with Jon
Stewart,” and he has become something of a
media and political watch dog. He calls it like
he sees it and today, almost nobody does that.
Jon Stewart, who quietly vacations in his
home in North Haven, has become such a
wild success that he has drawn the attention
of every politician and media outlet in the
country. He’s done all of this behind his
Comedy Central television show that’s as
ironic as it is powerful.
I didn’t think much of this rally when I first
heard about it, but the more I thought about
it, the more I realized that this is exactly
what a lot of us need. We need to be reminded that there are a lot of people out there who
are thoughtful, and don’t take sides immediately based on what party they consider
themselves to be a member of, whether it is
Independent, Republican or Democrat. And I
think that this is what this rally is all about.
It’s about reminding everybody that we’re
going to disagree with each other on things,
but that doesn’t mean that outrageous antics
that are acceptable as of late are going to
continue to be the norm. I think that Jon
Stewart is doing everything he can to try and
change that, no matter how hopeless it seems
sometimes, and even though those outrageous political and media antics are the
source of his comedy and what has made him
a star.

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THE SHELTERED
ISLANDER
by Sally Flynn

“I found my thrill on
Blueberry Hill....”
“Hi honey, I got a surprise for you. I redid the
bathroom today.”
“Lois, you just did that.”
“No, Brian, that was in the Spring when I decorated it for summer. I redid it today for

autumn.”
“Okay, just tell me what I can’t touch, starting
with which towels.”
“I made it very easy for you this year. Don’t
touch anything with an acorn or oak leaf. The
guest towels have the embroidered acorns and
oak leaves on them. They’re on top of the new
light orange and brown towels that you can use.
There’s matching acorn and oak leaf soaps in the
soap dish, don’t use them either. You can use the
regular soap in the dish in the drawer right next
to the sink. There’s also an acorn shaped rug in
front of the sink. Don’t stand on it. Stand next to
it and lean over if you have to look in the mirror.
There’s new potpourri on the back of the toilet,
don’t throw used matches in it and set it on fire
like last year.”
“Lois, if I built you a second bathroom, could
you designate it as a generic, user friendly zone

that I could use anytime and use anything in it
without fear of breaching that invisible clause in
the marriage contract that says, ‘and I swear
never to touch guest towels, or anything
designed for guests, even though the guests
know better than to touch the guest stuff?’”
“Are you serious? I’ve been begging for a second bathroom for years, why is it okay now?”
“Well, Lois my sweet, my huggy buggy bear... I
have a surprise for you too. Brace yourself.”
“Let me grab the counter. Okay, I’m braced.”
“I had a special talk with the new doc today. We
had the ‘little blue pill talk’ and he gave me samples...”
“I didn’t ask you to have the ‘little blue pill talk’
with him, our marriage is good, we don’t need to
worry about anything.”
“Maybe for you, but haven’t you ...missed me?”
“Yes, um, sure, absolutely.”
“You don’t sound very happy, Lois, I thought
you’d be thrilled.”
“Thrilled, that was the exact word I was looking for, thrilled. Yes, I am thrilled, can’t wait to be
more thrilled in fact.”
“And the thrill can last for up to four hours.”
“I’ll kill you.”
“What?”
“I said, will you? I mean, four hours, geez...
that’s like a whole afternoon. A contractor could
frame out a new bathroom in an afternoon. So
how many pills did you get?”
“Six. I can take them as long as I don’t develop
high blood pressure.”
“I see. Well Brian, you call a contractor while I
make dinner and later tonight we’ll give those
blue pills a test run.”
“Wait a minute, I didn’t say it was definite
about a new bathroom.”
“But why wait? Let’s live on the edge for once,
and spend some money on something we’ve
always wanted, a second bathroom. And I promise never to decorate it. Just you, four walls and
a shelf for newspapers. We’ll paint it blue to
match the little pill.”
“I guess it wouldn’t hurt to get an estimate.
What are you making for dinner?”
“Lasagna with extra cheese and extra sausage,
asparagus with hollandaise sauce, and cheesecake for dessert.”
“Perfect! Just don’t give me anything that will
raise my blood pressure.”
“Of course not. I’ll just record ‘Burn Notice’ and
all my HGTV shows tonight.”
“There you go... sex trumps HGTV any day.”
“I’ll warm you up some fried chicken while you
wait for dinner, honey.”

South O’

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Men in Black 3. He’ll reportedly play a 1969 MIB
boss. Filming begins next month.
*
*
*
The Last Play at Shea, a documentary about
The New York Mets and Sag Harbor’s Billy
Joel, had a one-night-only showing on 120
movie screens this week. The film premiered at
the Tribeca Film Festival, and was shown as
part of Guild Hall’s SummerDocs series.
*
*
*
Hamptons resident Christie Brinkley was
the first guest on “The Talk,” a new CBS show
hosted by Sharon Osbourne, Sara Gilbert,
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By Dan Rattiner
Week of October 22-28, 2010
Riders this week: 7,411
Rider miles this week: 68,443
DOWN IN THE TUBE
Chevy Chase and Jon Stewart were seen riding the subway reading Dan’s Papers between
East Hampton and Amagansett last Thursday
afternoon at 4 p.m. Neither was smiling. But so
what?
COMMISSIONER SUGGESTED AS POSSIBLE LT. GOV. ON PALADINO TICKET
With just two weeks to go before Election Day,
Carl Pasquale Paladino, the Republican nominee for Governor, mentioned in a speech he gave
at the Utica Auditorium that he might like to
see Subway Commissioner Bill Aspinall on his
ticket as Lieutenant Governor. That he already
has a Lieutenant Governor on the ticket seems
to have been jiggled from his memory. Here’s
what he said about his pal Bill.
“To paraphrase Mussolini, the beloved and
popular Italian dictator, they said about him ‘at
least he makes the subway run on time.’”
When reminded that Greg Edwards was on
his ticket as Lieutenant Governor candidate, he
had this to say.
“I’m gonna hit him with a baseball bat.”
CARRY-ON POLICY
Remember that all passengers on the subway
system are allowed one carry-on and then one
small pocketbook or canvas bag or in the case of
young men, fashionable mail bags. Containers
bigger than 10 by 15 feet by eight are not
allowed on at any time. That’s the max.
Anything gift-wrapped or in a plastic shopping
bag does not count in the total. All other extra
carry-ons are charged at the rate of $2 each.
26 EMPLOYEES OF 2 MASSAGE FIRMS
ARRESTED ON SUBWAY PLATFORMS FOR
SECOND STRAIGHT DAY
Fistfights broke out on every platform on the
Hampton Subway System when two different
companies that both believed they had the
exclusive franchise for offering quickie 10minute massages to straphangers on all the
platforms clashed for the second straight day.
The lengthy skirmish this time began about 11
p.m. and by 11:30 p.m. the police arrived every-

where. 26 people were arrested on 9 platforms,
including 17 employees of the 2 services, Walk
by Karen and Yuki Yaki Oriental Massage, 4
were customers and 5 were passersby. Service
was delayed while 11 massage mats were
removed from the third rail. Also removed,
though not from the third rail were 64 bottles of
rubbing oil, 11 towels and 2 portable credit card
swipe machines. 1 police officer was injured
when kicked in the groin, but after being taken
to the hospital subsequently released. The serv-

ice, which had shut down at 11:05 p.m., was
restored by 12:10 a.m.
All massages given at all platforms by these
massage firms and any others that might also
come in have been suspended until further
notice.
COMMISSIONER ASPINALL’S MESSAGE
It is very rare that we have a physical confrontation on our subway system and we certainly regret this one. The subway platforms
have been free of masseurs and masseuses for
20 hours before the new troubles began. Since
then, for the last four days, we have kept them
at bay and we plan to keep it that way. We regret
this behavior.
Remember, as far as masseuses and masseurs
are concerned, if you see something, say something. Subway police are now everywhere and
they will not be hard to find.

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WINDOWS PHONE 7
It shouldn’t be a big surprise to learn that
Microsoft has introduced its Windows Phone 7
mobile operating system. You know that times
have changed when Facebook’s Marc Zuckerberg
said he was working with Microsoft’s Bing
search engine instead of Google because

Microsoft was the underdog. I think that may
hold true with the latest Microsoft smartphones.
Of course, the market is unpredictable and the
more competition there is between Android
phones, iPhones, BlackBerries and the new
Microsoft phone, the better for us users. Prices
tend to be competitive to capture market share
and there are more built-in features to enjoy.
Phones running the new Window Phone 7 software will be available on AT&T’s network
staffing on November 8. Later in the year, the
phones will be available from T-Mobile, and in
2011, from Verizon and Sprint. AT&T will initially offer three phones, at $200 each. In total,
the operating system will run on nine new
phones made by LG, Samsung, HTC and Dell.
Some will have keyboards while others will be
exclusively touch screen.
Smartphones now account for 23% of all

mobile phones sold in the United States, according to the research firm Nielsen. Apple’s iPhone,
Google’s Android operating system and Research
In Motion’s BlackBerry have taken the lead in
new sales, while Microsoft has lagged behind.
Microsoft’s earlier mobile software was based on
the design and interface of its Windows desktop
operating system. The company has tried to distinguish Windows Phone 7 devices from others,
especially the iPhone, by promoting features that
allow users to personalize the look and feel of
their phones. These features allow updates from
social networks and messaging services to
appear automatically. Microsoft claimed they
focused in on how real people really want to use
their phones when they’re on the go. How’s that
for reading your market?
Microsoft also plans to introduce a new app
marketplace for the Windows Phone 7 platform,
and is partnering with developers to build mobile
apps for the new devices. For mobile application
developers, it’s one more challenge because
they’re already struggling to decide which platforms to focus on.
Consumers will be able to integrate the new
phones with a number of Microsoft products,
including Zune music and video content, the
Bing search engine, business products like
Microsoft’s OneNote software and the Xbox gaming platform. Some developers plan to build
games that can be played on both the Xbox 360
and Windows Phone 7. The AT&T phones will
work with the company’s U-verse TV service,
allowing users to download television shows to
their devices, among other features. I’d be
thrilled if the new Microsoft Windows Phone 7
works seamlessly with Windows Office software
since I rely on that suite for my basic data system. Unfortunately I haven’t upgraded to
Windows 7 yet, but this new phone could be a
good reason to go to the next level. We’ll soon see.

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Holly Robinson Peete and others that premiered this week.
*
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The Shelter Island home of architects Peter
Stamberg and Paul Aferiat is featured in this
month’s Architectural Digest The pair was
inspired to become architects when, as
teenagers, they saw the 1967 Amagansett house
Charles Gwathmey designed for his parents.
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Artist and musician Frank Latorre’s duo
Frank and Kerry Coalition won the right to represent all of Long Island in the annual
International Blues Challenge in Memphis.
More than 125 blues bands from all over the
world are scheduled to compete next year.
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Nightlife gurus Eugene Remm, Mark
Birnbaum and Michael Hirtensetin have
taken over the club formerly known as Lily
Pond. They’ll rename and rebrand the East
Hampton hotspot for next summer.
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*
Inspired by photos and paintings of Lois
Wright, Hampton resident/author/illustrator,
J.C. Burdine’s new children’s book is out in
time for Halloween. Bijoux Goes To Grey
Gardens is the story about a French bull dog
that goes to Grey Gardens, on Halloween night.

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Who’s Here
By David Lion Rattiner
Ed Burns is sort of a quiet celebrity. He doesn’t
shamelessly self promote, he doesn’t sell out and
he isn’t starting up a new reality television show.
But there is something about Ed Burns that
makes him impossible to not be noticed.
Whenever he stars, directs or writes a movie,
everybody becomes interested in it because Ed
Burns is just a naturally nice guy and it all
comes through.
His most recent movie was filmed out in the
Hamptons and is called, perhaps appropriately
enough, Nice Guy Johnny. The film was written,
directed and stars Burns, along with actors Matt
Bush and Kerry Bishe. Burns seems to be a big
believer in having a good time while making a
movie and many of his recent films have been
simply him with his camera, a cast and (in comparison to big studio budgets) a small budget.
He simply loves making movies. He loves the
art of it, it’s just that simple.
Nice Guy Johnny also shows off Burns’s love
for the East End, where he summers and owns a
home. The film positions the Hamptons as one of
its characters, with summer romance on the
beach as the main theme. And of course, Burns’s
New York charm that everybody loves comes
across as it always does.
Burns’ love for the Hamptons is something
that also comes across in this particular film, largely shot in East
Hampton. “Growing up in Valley
Stream, my family used to take trips
to Montauk during the summers.
Eastern Long Island is incredibly
beautiful and is a great place to kick
back, relax and escape the energy of
New York. I’ve been to some of the
most beautiful beaches in the world
and you really can’t beat the beaches
out East. When we’re out here, there’s always a
lot of outdoor activities and frequent ice cream
runs. I also try to get in as much tennis as I
can—I’ve really gotten into the sport over the
past couple years and always manage to fit in a
couple matches,” Burns said.
In Nice Guy Johnny, Burns crafts a summery
gem centered on baby faced 23-year-old Johnny
Rizzo, who is about to trade in his dream job in
sports radio for some snoozeville gig that will pay
enough to please his fiancé. Just weeks before
Rizzo’s marriage, a trip to New York and a simple job interview turns into a life altering experience when Rizzo meets up with Uncle Terry,
played by Burns. Uncle Terry, a rascally womanizer, is set on turning a day in the Hamptons
with Brooke (a young attractive tennis instructor) and his nephew into an eye-opening, life
changing experience.
Nice Guy Johnny promises to be the perfect
movie for Burns, this master of modern romance
on screen. But what is also an eye opener in the
film is how the Hamptons is presented.
“It was really important to me that the setting
for Nice Guy Johnny help play a big part in the
film and in Johnny’s character development. For
me, the East End allows me the time to think
about things. In my opinion, the East End was
the perfect setting to help Johnny make the right

Ed Burns
Actor/Director

smile and a “good morning” along with a tip by
the actor and director. One former employee of
Starbucks said, “I always like it when he comes
in because he always would tell me to keep the
change. That just doesn’t happen that often.”
Burns’s wife Christy Turlington is also well
known out here. A fan of pilates and yoga, she’s
frequently referred to in conversation at the
gyms as an inspiration for fitness, which makes
sense, considering she’s paid handsomely to look
good on camera.
Burns, the writer, actor and director, started
out his career as a production assistant on an
Oliver Stone film, The Doors, and then moved to
work as an assistant for the show
“Entertainment Tonight.” It was there that
Burns figured out that he could make movies
himself, on his own, with a small amount of
money. The first film he wrote was The Brothers
McMullen, which earned him great attention in
the film industry. His big break came when he
got a starring role in the movie She’s the One,
starring Jennifer Aniston, Cameron Diaz and
Amanda Peet. That film is still popular today. It
shows off Burn’s ability to play roles that romanticize characters who are regular Joes. Well, Ed is
a regular Joe in real life. So it comes easy to him.
These two successes catapulted Burns into
movie-star land. He earned critical praise for his
role in the World War II mega hit
Saving Private Ryan, starring Tom
Hanks and directed by Steven
Spielberg. This role further solidified Ed Burns not just as a movie
star, but as an actor with a great
screen presence and his success
continues to this day.
These days, Ed Burns is going
back to how he got started, making
movies on a low budget but getting
noticed in a big way. But is this deliberate?
Would he rather be making movies with big studios? He explained that really well. “Everything
is a compromise. When you’re making a lower
budget film like Nice Guy Johnny, it means you
give up a lot of the bells and whistles of the higher budget films, like makeup artists and fancy
catering, but you have so much more creative
control,” he said. “Writing, acting and producing
a film with a three man crew means by the end,
everyone involved has formed a tight-knit family. In a sense, I’ve come full circle from The
Brothers McMullen, which I made on a budget of
$25,000, begged and borrowed for locations,
shooting at my parent’s house and in Central
Park—since they were free of charge. In Nice
Guy Johnny, it’s a return to the $25,000 budget,
where the actors wore their own clothes and did
their own makeup. The energy and dynamic of
the extremely talented young cast brought inspiration and life to this film and helped me to
make sure I brought my A-Game each day.”
Burns also believes, like many filmmakers,
that there is a good future for the film industry
on the East End. “There is really no other place
like it—you’ve got beautiful beaches, towns and
vineyards all within a few miles of each other.
Each town seems to have its own vibe, which is a
valuable asset for any filmmaker.”

‘Making a low budget film...you give
up a lot of bells and whistles...but
you have more creative control.’
decision. For years, artists like Jackson Pollock
and Lee Krasner have been moved by the light
out East. The same can be said for filmmakers;
the scenery truly is special and inspiring,” the
actor, writer and director shares.
Nice Guy Johnny stretches along the beaches
of East Hampton in the summertime and into
the bright summer homes with their tennis
courts and swimming pools and beautiful gardens. (You can check out some of the trailers to
the film that are posted on danshamptons.com.)
The beaches are the setting for the romance,
which features the characters played by Bush
and Bishe. There are also driving scenes featuring the expensive cars that cruise through the
back roads. It makes you miss summer.
In terms of some of the filming locations,
Burns explains, “You’ll probably recognize
Georgica in a few scenes and having lived out in
the Springs years ago, I always thought it would
make the perfect setting for a film so you’ll see
that location as well, not to mention Springs
General Store—one of my favorite places out
East.”
Burns is pretty well known in the area, and is
well liked by the locals for his laid back attitude
and generous nature. In the summer time, Burns
sometimes goes to Starbucks in Bridgehampton,
where employees there are all greeted with a

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Life Spans

(continued from page 17)

healthy, natural fruits and vegetables that they
cook at home. They are not used to and can’t
afford the processed foods and TV dinners and
the other crap that the rest of us buy at the
supermarkets. It’s been noticed that Hispanics
shop around the peripheries of these stores,
while the rest of us tend to shop in the middle
where the processed food is. Also, the immigrant Hispanics in general can’t afford to eat in
expensive restaurants where very rich food is
served. They also work hard for as long as they
can as they get old. There is ample support that
those who retire earlier tend to lose their way
sooner than those who do not do so. So this is a
third theory.
Finally, there is the theory that because
Hispanics enjoy a close family life, they tend to
live longer. There have been many studies
which show that people with close family ties,
particularly intergenerational ties, tend to be
happier and have longer lifespans. It sure beats
sad and alone.
If this seems to be a good argument for living
the simple life, read on. Life spans back home
south of the border are shorter than they are in
America. And consider that the complicated,
Internet, hi-tech and Burger King life just
saved the lives of 33 miners down in Chile who
without this support would have died. This rescue happened on the same day the report came
out.
The 33 miners were saved because of a huge
three-foot wide drill capable of digging down
2,500 feet in 50 days that is only made at one

factory in the world. It was flown down there
from this factory in North Carolina, courtesy of
the company. It saved their lives.
The miners, as you may recall, were buried
alive on August 5 and not heard from for 17
days. At that time, a small bore hole was driven down to where they were. And up came a
message that they were still alive.
A second and then a third bore hole was
made down to them, and through these, over
the next days and weeks and months, just
about anything and everything was sent down
to them. All it needed to be was either smaller
than or folded down to less than three inches in
diameter.
At first the miners were able to light their
environment with the power from a gas generator down there that recharged their head
lanterns. Lowered down to them later were
flashlights and glow lights to light their caves.
Doctors recommended bright lights to mark
daylight hours and red lights to mark the
night. One of the miners was a paramedic
named Yonni Barrios. Sent down to him were
aspirin, antibiotics, vaccines and penicillin. He
took blood pressure readings, sent up blood and
urine samples, and gave vaccine shots against
pneumonia, tetanus, flu and meningitis.
Food sent down included barbecued steak, ice
cream, fresh papaya, empanadas, tostadas and
Coca Cola, also protein and vitamin drinks. A
request for wine was considered, but in the end
denied.
A company sent cots down there which could

be folded up to fit down the tiny tubes.
Fiber optic cables were threaded down to
them and the miners were able to receive daily
psychiatric sessions by video with doctors from
NASA and the Chilean Navy familiar with life
aboard submarines. The cables also allowed the
miners to enjoy video conferencing with their
wives and families, and an occasional movie.
The miners suffered terribly during the 17
days they were out of touch. They survived on
very limited rations, which included two spoonfuls of tuna, one cracker, a bit of peach topping
and a glass of milk a day. But then with the
urging of those above, they organized themselves into groups and began daily exercise regimens and workouts. One miner ran more than
a mile a day.
The cave they were in was about the size of a
studio apartment, but there were other cave
areas down other tunnels. One of them had a
waterfall under which they could shower. The
waterfall also was a source of fresh water.
Another cave became a place for their waste.
They heeded the suggestions that they keep
their environment and themselves clean.
Razors were sent down, as were soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste and fresh clothes.
Lots of other things went down those threeinch holes. They included dominoes, letters,
bibles, skin creams, gum and clean clothes.
Fresh air was pumped down. The request for
cigarettes was at first denied. The doctors voted
at first to send skin patches instead. But later
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BY THE BOOK

IN THE HAMPTONS, TOO
By T.J. Clemente
In his latest effort, In the Hamptons Too, Dan
Rattiner continues his chronicling of Hamptons
lore as only someone who’s been writing multiple weekly articles about the East End for the
last 50 years could. As in his last book In the
Hamptons, My Fifty Years with Farmers,
Fishermen, Artists, Billionaires and Celebrities,
the storytelling is entertaining and enlightening.
In the Hamptons Too is more than an account
of the way things were or an explanation of how
the Hamptons has evolved. This book is a collection of insights that Dan cleverly unfolds,
making you feel as if you’ve been invited to join
him at his East Hampton home for a glass of
wine and a walk down memory lane. The voice
of the storytelling is grandfatherly and gentle,
with touches of wit and a dash of bite.
Dan Rattiner is, of course, the founder of
Dan’s Papers, a free weekly that is the largest
circulated paper on the East End, and one that
is a welcome read in Manhattan as well. Dan’s
eyes and ears have witnessed all the major
events of the last 50 years that have changed
the Hamptons to what it is today: a summer
paradise playground to the rich and famous, as
well as the hometowns to some of the oldest
families in North America. Through his ability
to blend a touch of the old with a splash of the
new, Dan weaves the stories into a quilt of traditions, rumors, scandals, tragedies and bravado events.
In the Hamptons Too is also sprinkled with
low-key human interest snapshots, all assembled through Dan’s skill with words, tempo, and
composition. He opens up his personal life,
explaining what was happening to him personally as his newspaper business and the
Hamptons evolved. He invites you into the privacy of conversations from yesteryear with
important characters who played a role in
either transforming the Hamptons to what it is
today or resisting inevitable change. You’ll be
introduced to the likes of Richard Gilmartin,
Victor Syzmanski, William Power Maloney Sr.,
Don Clause, and Florence Palmer—names not
usually mentioned in Hamptons conversations
these days.
The stories take you from the time a teenage
boy from New Jersey came to Montauk and
began his exploration of his new world. Now,
some 50 years later, Dan can look back and tell
“Dan stories” of the likes of Martha Stewart,
Norman Mailer, Barry Turpin, Jack Whitaker,
Kurt Vonnegut, President Bill Clinton, and my
favorite chapter—the one on Albert Einstein as
told to Dan by David Rothman, a man who
befriended the famous scientist in Southold
during the summer of 1939. This chapter alone
is worth the price of the book. It brings out the

best of what Dan can do with a story told to
him. He gives us new insights into the kind of
man Einstein was, describing his humanizing
effect on those he met in Southold with his
humble appearances, his willingness to participate in a low key way in local issues, and his
love for the area. The idea of this great man getting together weekly to play in a string quartet
with North Fork musicians is a vision worthy of
a Norman Rockwell painting.
There will be chapters you will know some
things about and others that will be like
entering a new dirt road in your old neighborhood for the first time. This book will no
doubt age well and become an important
view of the history and blueprint of how the
Hamptons evolved over the last half of the
20th Century. It is an easy read and will
make the reader chuckle, cringe, remember

and learn. Reading this book was a pleasure
because of its casual “come and listen to a
story” style that is Dan Rattiner.
Dan is not without faults as he points out
in many of the chapters, but he’s also a
thoughtful, community-minded man who,
through the years, has aided many charities,
promoted needed fundraisers and taken
important stands on social issues through
some thorny times. But most of all he never
lost his eye for the story within the story. He
knows how to reel you in.
Even if the Hamptons is not your playground, this book will deliver a slice of
Americana that enlighten you on the the evolution of small towns. This book is an opportunity to enter a time machine of words that
propels you in to the mindsets of people from
times past.

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Shining Light

Life Spans

(cont’d from page 14)

The stunt was supposed to earn Rodriguez
a million dollars, which he said, he would use
to pay down his mortgage and the doctor bills
that he expected would accumulate from an
operation his wife needed.
Then they took him away.
The whole stunt came about because of an
online contest offered up by the Internet billionaire Alki David.
David announced his contest online saying
he would pay a million dollars to the first
person who could get naked within 20 feet of
Obama, demonstrate the President had
looked at him, say “battlecam.com” which
was David’s new video website, and have the
whole thing recorded on tape. Rodriguez had

arrived in a t-shirt and shorts cut in the back
and velcroed in such a way that just one rip
would render him naked. He relied on others
to see that the event was recorded.
“I think I won it,” Rodriguez said. “I did
everything I was supposed to do.”
David said, however, that he hadn’t won it.
There was no evidence that the President
“looked” at hin.
When he was asked if he thought the
Secret Service might think he had a weapon
on him, he had this to say.
“The only way a naked man could be a
threat to the President is if he had a long
threatening object. That wasn’t me, as anyone could see.”

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on, the miners got 45 cigarettes a day to divide
up.
Thus it was that when the miners emerged—
wearing designer sunglasses sent down to them
from Oakley—they were full of energy and life,
were well dressed and clean and just so happy to
be home.
I’ve been to resorts that did not have this
many amenities.
In any case, as far as the western way of life is
concerned, it’s damned if you do and damned if
you don’t.
The lifespan report concludes, by the way, by
saying that over time, they expect to see the
lifespans of Hispanic immigrants decline until
they match up with the rest of those here. Why?
As they prosper and assimilate, they will become
fatter and more sedentary like the rest of us.
So that will be that.
Well, either way, while you’re here, enjoy life
and be kind to others. As Steve Jobs once said, “If
you live each day as if it is your last, one day you
most certainly will be right.”

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(continued from page 17)

Harbor. When the factories left one by one and
then suddenly were all gone Sag Harbor was in
danger of rusting away, losing its historical context. But behind the scenes former Sag Harbor
Mayor Greg Ferraris explained to me Joe played
a huge role keeping any change tasteful. At the
300th anniversary in 2007 a then 99-year-old
Alice Miller Hand spoke of the things that
remained constant in Sag Harbor like the
Schiavoni family market. Mrs. Hand, who lived
on Prospect Street in the 1920s, noted the importance of stability in a community. Then she said
what I believe is the mantra of all who live in
Sag Harbor, which is that Main Street “still looks
and feels pretty much the same as it did during
my high school days (1921-1925).” She did mention that during the Depression finding expensive paint and replacing glass windows was
tough until all the boys came home from the war
(WWII) and spruced up the village just about the
time Joe began working full time at the market,
(although he did make deliveries by bike starting at the age of eight).
The measure of the man is what people say
about him when he is gone. It seems Joe’s charity to neighbors in a bind is legendary. The stories
of groceries on margin only to be forgiven, when
good families struggled, the ability to help the
needy in their time of need, quietly as to not
embarrass the very proud hard working people
are just some of his good deeds. His fairness was
also matched by his sternness not to be taken
advantage of. Joe Schiavoni is survived by his
wife, Victoria; their three children Michael
Schiavoni, Mary Mather and Andrew Schiavoni,
and 10 wonderful grandchildren. Also surviving
him is a sister, Constance Taylor; and nine nieces
and nephews. He now joins his brother, John
Schiavoni, and a sister, Leatrice Sherry in peaceful eternity.
For many it’s just going to be tough not seeing
Joe around anymore but it’s also wonderful to
know that his Sag Harbor is so much a better
place because he spent his whole life living
there.

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PROD. NO.
SCENE

TAKE

TIME

WEEKEND
IN THE
COUNTRY

DATE

by Susan M. Galardi
This weekend, the entertainment events on
the East End are pared up like creatures on the
ark—they come in twos and cover a lot of interesting territory. There are two major art exhibits
on the same night at the same place (Guild Hall,
see related story on page 47), and two concerts
featuring music that skirts the popular genres—
Big Band and Elizabethan lute songs.
On Friday, October
22, Big Band East, a
locally based swing
orchestra, will perform at the Old
Whalers Church. The
16-piece
band
of
instrumentalists and
Young, Morrongiello
two vocalists has done
the Hamptons party/benefit scene for 35 years.
Big Band East does it by the book—they play the
authentic arrangements of music from the
1930s-‘50s: Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Duke
Ellington, Harry James and Benny Goodman.
Too bad you can’t dance in church.
Big Band East: Sounds of the Swing Era.
Friday, Oct. 22, 7 p.m. See info below.

Company (HTC), in
its 26th season, is
doing a full production
of
David
Lindsay-Abaire’s
2007 Pulitzer Prizewinning
drama
Rabbit Hole. It’s
about a family coming to terms with the
accidental death of
the couple’s 4-yearold son. While the
subject matter is
Extremities, the film
enough to make any
parent shudder, it is handled with compassion,
wit and hope. Entertainment Weekly described
Rabbit Hole as “a transcendent ... play, which
shifts perfectly from hilarity to grief.” The cast

includes
Birgitta
Millard, Steve Ayle,
Diana Marbury, Abbi
Hawk
and
Ben
Schnickel. HTC Exec.
Dir. Sarah Hunnewell
directs.
Rabbit Hole: Thurs.,
Fri. and Sat. at 8 p.m.,
Sun. at 2:30 through
November 7. Quogue
Production at HTC
Community Hall
Tickets: $25/adults, $23/seniors, $10/students. OvationTix: 866-811-4111, or HTC, 631653-8955. Hamptontheatre.org
The Naked Stage (TNS) has been entertaining
Hampton audiences for years with lively readings of great plays that would most likely never
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WOULD YOU LEAVE YOUR GOLF CLUBS OR TENNIS
RACQUET OUT IN THE COLD ALL WINTER?
Or maybe you would rather schlep your summer stuff back to New York every year?

A more intimate, transparent musical experience is a concert of Renaissance Lute songs on
Sunday, with lutenist Christopher Morrongiello
and soprano/harpist Marcia Young. This music
will take you back, to the 15th Century to be
exact—the era of trouveres and troubadours who
performed ‘secular’ songs. (“Greensleeves” is popular ditty from around that era.) Some of the
songs use the high-brow poetry of Shakespeare,
Jonson, Spenser and Donne. Some lyrics are
unattributed, and as I can attest having sung the
songs of Purcell, some of those lyrics are quite
bawdy with lots of “code.” For example, at 17, I
didn’t know that when I sang about dying, it didn’t mean being laid to rest…
The duo has a formidable pedigree. Lutenist
Morrongiello is a former British Marshall
Scholar, graduated from New York’s Mannes
College and earned a PhD at Oxford. He’s been
praised for “producing sounds that caused one to
marvel.” Young has appeared with many highly
regarded early music groups at The Cloisters,
Yale University, and international music festivals. Her voice has been described as having “a
winning mixture of formal restraint and emotional intensity. Her diction is excellent.” Those
qualities are critical in this music, where you
need to understand every word.
Morrongiello and Young, Renaissance Lute
Songs. Sunday, Oct. 24, 2 p.m. Old Whalers
Church, 44 Union St., Sag Harbor. $25, Tickets
$25 at the door, or in advance: 631-725-0894.
Local theaters are presenting challenging fare
in the next few weeks. The Hampton Theatre

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Legends are Back!
By Susan M. Galardi
add some slightly more obscure
It’s great when a plan comes
people like maybe Cream, Blind
together. It’s even greater when
Faith and Frank Zappa,” he said. “I
that plan is so successful that a
think I’ll put in a clip of Zappa
one-off idea becomes a “thing.”
with the Mothers of Invention
Joe Lauro’s Music Legends
doing ‘Suzy Creamcheese’ from a
Series, which started last year at
1967 show ‘Live from the Bitter
the Bay Street Theatre, is a
End.’ Or maybe a clip I have of him
thing. A very cool, incredibly
on the ‘Steve Allen Show’ before he
entertaining, surprisingly movwas famous. He played the bicycle
ing and outrageously funny
pump with orchestra. It’s amazing
thing.
what he got away with—in 1962.”
Lauro, a filmmaker who owns
Last year’s Legends series, in
Historic Films Archive, creates
addition to showing Lauro’s
these RockDocs from his bottomincredible collection, showed his
The Dead
less vault of clips. His first
sense of humor. The Divas RockDoc
Legends of Rock film last year had such an over- included a clip of William Shatner that had the
whelming response that many people were audience rolling in the aisles. “Shatner’s great,”
turned away at the door.
said Lauro. “He fits in anywhere.”
“We’re back by popular demand,” said Lauro,
The success of these films, I think, also has to
who lives in Sag Harbor. “Bay Street contacted do with the fact that rock music is plugged in, so
me about doing more films and showing the orig- hearing/seeing the acts on screen and speakers
inal Legends of Rock again since so many people isn’t as big a stretch as say, an opera broadcast.
missed it. But I have so much great stuff, I said, The thrill in that genre is the sound of huge
let’s just do another one. So this is Volume 2.”
unamplified voices thundering in a concert hall.
The films are a pastiche of live, studio or TV But we’re used to hearing rock “electronically.”
clips of the greatest musicians of our time. The Lauro added that a lot of the clips are already
new RockDoc, scheduled for October 29, features taken from taped performances—mostly TV.
The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, David
Not to mention, Lauro has incredible stuff. His
Bowie, Grateful Dead, The Who. Upon request films go by in a flash. He has the musical timing
from his own fans, Lauro has some surprises.
of a virtuoso—and the passion, too.
“I’m going to hit some of the artists I didn’t rep“I like putting the films together, I love watchresent last time, and some of the ones people ing them on the big screen,” said Lauro, who
went wild for—Jimi Hendrix, The Doors. I’ll also seemed to be putting Legends Volume 2 together

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as we spoke. His efforts are more than a labor of
love—this guy is having a ball. In fact, he sums
up his strategy, “It’s gotta be fun, man.”
The Legends of Rock Vol. 2. Friday, October 29,
8 p.m. Bay Street Theatre, on the Wharf in Sag
Harbor. Tickets, $15, at baystreet.org, or the Bay
Street Box Office, 631-725-9500.

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see a full production. On October 26, they’re presenting William Mastrosimone’s Extremities—
the story of a young woman who is attacked in
her home by a would-be rapist. She manages to
get the upper hand, tying him up in her fireplace
with cords and belts. Extremities ran on
Broadway for over 300 performances, and
became a film starring Farah Fawcett.
TNS is presenting the play in association with
The Retreat of East Hampton, in recognition of
Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Following
the performance of Extremities, members of The
Retreat’s staff will moderate a talk back.
Extremities, Tues., Oct. 26, 7:30 p.m. Guild
Hall, 158 Main St., East Hampton. Free.
If you really want to be involved in the East
End cultural scene, here’s your chance. Center
Stage is holding auditions for the Off-Broadway
hit, Other People’s Money on Sunday, Oct. 24,
5:00 p.m. at Southampton Cultural Center’s
Levitas Center, 25 Pond Lane. Go to southamptonculturalcenter.org for info.

Wines That are Worth
Fighting Traffic For
“Driving on the North Fork in October is like driving in the Hamptons in August”
That’s what a friend of my posted on his Facebook
wall last weekend — and it’s impossible to argue.
Every year, Main Road and Route 48 swell with barely moving parades of pumpkin-pickers and corn stalk
stalkers from all points from Manhattan to Suffolk
County.
As painful as it is, this is a time of year that I try to
avoid wine country on weekends — except a quickly
weekly jaunt to Garden of Eve Organic Farm for our
CSA pickup. I just don’t handle the crowds well, no
matter how great they are for the local economy —
and there’s no doubt that they are great for it.
So, until the end of the month, I’ll keep my winery
trips to weekdays.
But, if you find yourself out on the twin forks for
gourds and Indian corn and the like, you might as well
stop at a winery and get a taste of the region’s best. It
is with that in mind that I offer my suggestions for

wines worth fighting the traffic for — I think for the
third year now.
Wolffer Estate 2007 Perle Chardonnay ($30):
Available both at Wolffer Estate in Sagaponack and
Roanoke Vineyards in Riverhead, this is one of New
York’s best barrel-fermented chardonnays. Roasted
hazelnuts and subtle oak lead the nose here with aromas of ripe, juicy peach, roasted apples, vanilla and
dried pineapple beneath. Rich and mouth-filling, the
palate delivers concentrated and varied flavors of
peach, lemon zest, roasted nuts, vanilla and golden
apple — all balanced and enlivened by great acidity.
Despite the intensity of the mid-palate, the lengthy
finish is almost delicate, lingering with citrus and
light vanilla flavors.
Peconic Bay Winery 2009 Riesling ($24): Winemaker
Greg Gove has a special affection for riesling and this
vintage very well may be his best rendition to date.
The lavish, bright nose shows lovely floral aromas of
citrus and apple blossom with just-ripe peach and
grapefruity citrus fruit notes. Crunchy, electric acidity
balances a burst of citrus fruit — sweet lime and
grapefruit — on a mouth-filling palate that also delivers floral, peach and almond flavors. The finish is
medium-long and decidedly floral and citrusy with a
chalky, saline minerality at the very end.
McCall Wines 2007 Pinot Noir ($24): One of owner
Russ McCall’s first releases, this pinot’s aromas are
intense and classic, showing bright black berry and
pomegranate with a dusting of earthy spice, and light
caramel notes. Medium-light in body with fresh acidity, the well-balanced palate brings straightforward,
ripe black cherry and strawberry flavors with subtle
spicy oak and a long finish that is a bit earthy.
Some other wines worth running over a pumpkin-

NORTH FORK EVENTS
For more events happening this week, check out:
Kid Calendar pg: 40
Arts & Galleries Listings pg: 48
Day by Day Calendar pg: 49
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22
NOFO: BENEFIT DINNER AND CONCERT - The first
annual benefit concert and dinner to honor to young men
that lost their lives early this year in fatal accidents. All the
money raised goes back to the children in the community to
rebuild the Third Street Basketball court and make it a
drug free zone. Dinner is $20 dollars and the concert is $25
dollars. Combined ticket is $40. The dinner will be at the
Third Street Firehouse in Greenport and the concert is at
Townsend Manor Inn in Greenport. Dinner is from 6-7:30
p.m. and the doors open at Townsend at 8 p.m. 631-5667737.
FRIDAY NIGHT DIALOGUES – “The Hundred Year
Diet” America’s voracious appetite for losing weight with
special guest and author Susan Yager, introduced by Bob
Berkowitz. 7 p.m. The Shelter Island Public Library. 37
North Ferry Road, Shelter Island. 631-749-0042.
HAUNTED HOUSE – The Darkside Haunted House has
begun. Located at 5184 Route 25A in Wading River. Not recommended for children under 10 years old. 631-369-SCAR.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23
SOUTHOLD MOTHERS’ CLUB CLOTHING SALE Southold Mothers’ Club’s children’s clothing sale is today
from 12:30-3:30 p.m. at Southold Town Recreation Center,
Peconic. Admission $5; free admission with clothing donation before event. Girls and boys shirts, pants, shorts,
sweaters, dresses, shoes, coats and boots sizes infant to 10.
To
donate
call
631-433-4946,
or
email
cynderella201@aol.com.
GARLIC TALK - Secrets of the ‘Stinking Rose,’ 10 a.m.noon at Charnews Farm, Southold, hosted by Peconic Land
Trust. Denise Markut, North Fork stewardship manager,
shares her expertise and answers questions about garlic.

Fee
$5;
reservations
requested.
631-283-3195,
events@peconiclandtrust.org. Rain or shine.
RIVERHEAD FOUNDATION 5K - Riverhead
Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation’s 13th
annual 5K Run For The Ridley, 10 a.m. on Main Street in
Riverhead. Open to all ages. Pre-registration $17 if postmarked by Oct. 16; 631-369-9840, riverheadfoundation.org.
THE ARTS IN SOUTHOLD TOWN – Julliard String
Quartet performs at the Southold High School Auditorium,
Oaklawn Avenue, Southold. 7:30 p.m. 631-734-5320.
HAUNTED HOUSE – The Darkside Haunted House has
begun. Located at 5184 Route 25A in Wading River. Not recommended for children under 10 years old. 631-369-SCAR.
ATLANTIS MARINE WORLD GOES SCARY –
Halloween celebration at Atlantis Marine World in
Riverhead. Aquarium becomes alive with a Fun Zone, with
mystery boxes, crafts, games, and an interactive story time,
and a Slime Lab, filled with scientists and their spooky science exhibits. There will also be a Creepy Scavenger Hunt
and face painting. Kids in costume on October 31, get 50%
their Admission Price! Halloween activities are included
with Admission. 431 East Main Street, Riverhead. 631-2089200.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24
HAUNTED HOUSE – The Darkside Haunted House has
begun. Located at 5184 Route 25A in Wading River. Not recommended for children under 10 years old. 631-369-SCAR.
ATLANTIS MARINE WORLD GOES SCARY –
Halloween celebration at Atlantis Marine World in
Riverhead. Aquarium becomes alive with a Fun Zone, with
mystery boxes, crafts, games, and an interactive story time,
and a Slime Lab, filled with scientists and their spooky science exhibits. There will also be a Creepy Scavenger Hunt
and face painting. Kids in costume on October 31, get 50%
their Admission Price! Halloween activities are included
with Admission. 431 East Main Street, Riverhead. 631-2089200.
ONGOING EVENTS
SOUP KITCHEN - Community supper, free soup kitchen
for those in need, 5:30-6:30 p.m. on Wednesdays at St. Agnes

Roman Catholic Church parish hall, located on Sixth Street
in Greenport. For more info., call 631-765-2981.
REIKI CIRCLES - Reiki Circles Monday Nights at the
Grace Episcopal Church on the last Monday of every month.
Meetings are held at the Peconic Bay Medical Center. For
more info., contact Ellen J. McCabe at (631) 727-2072.
SKATEBOARDING - Great skate park in Greenport
offering ramps and a half pipe. For hours and other info.,
call 631-477-2385.
INDIAN MUSEUM - In Southold, open 1:30 p.m.- 4:30
p.m. on Sundays. For more info., call 631-765-5577.
CUSTER OBSERVATORY - Weather permitting, Custer
staff will be on site to assist visitors in observing the night
sky and in using their telescopes. Open from sunset until
midnight in Southold. For more info., call 631-765-2626.
MEDITATION - Buddhist meditations, 7 p.m. on
Monday evenings at the First Presbyterian Church on Main
Street in Southold. For more info., call 631-949-1377.

By Tamara Matthews-Stephenson
Eastern Long Island has attracted artists media for
centuries. Painters, sculptors and mixed medium
artists often profess that the unusual light in the
Hamptons acts as inspiration for both literal and
abstract art. Many local artists take their cues from
the magnificent marine and farm life we are so fortunate to have. In the Springs section of East Hampton
alone, Jackson Pollock’s influences are strongly felt,
and his former home (now a museum) attracts artists
and art enthusiasts to the area year round. Each town
in eastern Long Island boasts an assortment of gal-

leries so locals and visitors have
much to choose from when purchasing art for their home. Yet, acquiring
art still eludes many people. Unless
you are a learned collector, purchasing art for your home can become an
overwhelming and ominous task.
For many it is a convoluted process
and much more difficult than choosing a sofa or decorations for the
home.
As an interior designer, of course
there are many areas of a home that
I must contend with when taking on
a new project. A designer must help
their client to tie various belongings, tastes and backgrounds
together with a fresh new approach
to create a harmonious space. In my
opinion, few elements speak to the
design in a home more than personal art choices. Art does not act as a
lovely accoutrement, but more importantly, it sets the
tone in a home. Art tells a story about the homeowner
in a way that other objects may not, and maybe simply
because of the meaning tucked within the canvas, photography or sculpture. Of course art can be interpreted differently from one viewer to the next. The feeling
the art piece conveys, or its intended feeling, is what
the buyer should focus on when purchasing art. I
believe if you buy what you love and what moves you,
it will work in your home. This simple rule will help to
take some of the mystery out of art.

I don’t believe in any hard and
fast rules about blending art in
interiors because incorporating art
into a home is a personal decision
subject to likes and dislikes. For
instance, some people enjoy traditional sensibilities in decorating
but have a fascination with modern abstract art. This can be an
interesting juxtaposition if done
well. One former client wanted to
fill entire walls with photography
in various frames, but when it
came to hanging paintings, preferred to display these works
alone. I do believe it makes an
interesting blend to add a variety
of art mediums to a home, from
photography to antique botanicals,
and of course original art when
possible.
If a restricted budget may not
permit original works, antique and vintage botanicals
and prints are a way to collect interesting art in a relatively inexpensive way. There are a wide range of
botanicals, marine life and Audubon prints in varied
colors and styles at local antique shows and shops,
from hand painted 18th century French to American
Mid-Century. These richly detailed scenes often capture various historical elements of beauty and fascination of another era. It can be interesting to group a
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When considering buying art from a
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inspirations. One way to meet them in person and to
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I met with East Hampton local artist Idoline Duke
to chat with her about what motivates her when creating her work. Idoline gave me a tour of her ethereal
collection of watercolors which were being prepared to
be displayed at Mecox Gardens shop in East Hampton
this past summer. While perusing her art and chatting
with Idoline, I noted she lights up when talking of her

childhood spent on the beaches of
East Hampton. She explains how she
taps into her love of the ocean to create these beautiful paintings, and
feels the pull of the tide all the way to
the green mountain state of Vermont
where she now lives with her family. I enjoy her seahorse and marine life studies which capture the spirit
of these creatures in a unique manner. Idoline showed
me a series of watercolors she entitled, “Pools” and
these colorful orbs are painted in arrangements similar to how one displays their collection of beach glass
or seashells after a day of combing the sand. The Pool
collection is a series of watercolors with sentiments of
the sea that captures the essence of the water in orbs
or droplets painted in layers of varying color from blue
to plum to pink and brown. It is once literal, yet at the
same time abstract. Idoline communicates her love for

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working with watercolors in particular and she feels it
is the next best experience to actually being in the
water.
After meeting with Idoline, I am smitten with her
sense of color and detail. I can see glimpses of her
twenty year background as a landscape artist in her
work. Her sophisticated use of color and detail must
have been honed during the many years she created
beautiful gardens in the area. Now, each day as I pass
a blank wall in my bedroom, the wall seems to beckon
for a “Pool” painting to inhabit the space. I can picture
those orbs speaking to me each morning, especially
during the cold winter months, and reminding me of
the warm summer sandy beach on my toes.
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This heart has ceased
to beat,
Where the green weeping-willows bend
I fain would go to rest,
Where waters chant,
and winds may sweep
Above my peaceful
breast.”
Horsford brings to
mind the many graveyards on the East End,
Photo by Arnold
with their marble stones
Brower
noting lives past. In
Bridgehampton every one
in the Presbyterian cemetery died in spring or fall
in an odd rhythm of their own which was probably
attuned to the seasons of the year and work each
brought on.
Anne Porter, who grew up just off of South Main
Street in Southampton, is the daughter of Fairfield

Photo by Frank Muller
Porter – one of our most famous local painters.
Portraits of her abound in his work. She describes
a long time ritual that still takes place just down
the street from her childhood home: the setting of
the Christmas tree in the pond. On March 25,
Porter writes of the slow unveiling of spring. Ange
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CELEBRATING PAUMONAUK
The book Paumonauk, Poems and Pictures of
Long Island, compliled and edited by Kathaleen
Donnelly and printed in Bulgaria, is all about Long
Island’s natural beauty. A calendar of prose and
photography, the book dedicates each page to a single day. In fact, Paumonauk can be read in any way
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resident photographers. Every day is an offering of
new thoughts, descriptions, odes, virtual love
poems to the wonderful seashore, fields and woodland and many forms of life that makes up our 70mile stretch east out into the Atlantic. Paumonauk
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describing its beauties but also clearly illustrating
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soil strata. For years he’s been tromping through
the Manorville hills pine barrens, getting to know
the area and getting lost. (He credits Legislator Ed
Romaine with helping to preserve this vast bounty
of Long Island’s natural landscape.)
Stock recounts his introduction to the glories of
Long Island’s natural world in his brief verses of
“Talking to Long Island” on the page of October 23.
Vidal Martinez’s fall shot of a marsh channel surrounded by fall foliage in its full glory underlines
the reasons for Stock’s love affair.
Stock wasn’t the first to extol the island’s
virtues. Mary Gardiner L’Hommedieu Horsford
writes of all that has been and will be in her poem
“My Native Isle,” from the late 1800s. Her name
hints of large land holdings and whaling ships
from the past. Horsford explains clearly why people have fallen in love with the region. For her,
those reasons are her family ties and the graves of
those gone by beneath a willow where some day
she hopes to reside.
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Gualtieri’s accompanying photograph of a
windswept tree by the beach reflects the true pace
of the change of seasons here. Porter also offers us
some quiet contemplation and respect for the small
joys and details in her depiction of the night in late
fall in her entry for November 23. The July 7 entry
captures the freneticism of summer guests.
“Walking to the Sea” by Ginger Williams which
appears on the July 29 page, tells the summer tale
of going to the beach and diving in the water that
we can all relate to. In fact, many cherished memories are illustrated throughout the summer pages.
Turtles on a log by Marc Olivetti, bees busy in
dahlias by Susan Tiffen, Bob Schmitz’s fireworks,
Pauline Southard’s magnificent Long Island sunset all bring the summer months to life.

In Paumonauk, Long Island’s story is also told in
terms of the people who live and have lived here.
We are welcomed to visit the lifestyle of David
Martine’s great grandfather, whose story is told on
the
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great
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observing waterfowl and then in his later years
became an active civic leader. What a great example he set, but maybe we shouldn’t wait until our
later years though to get involved.
Paumonauk serves up beauty to contemplate, to
preserve, to re-invigorate and inspire us. It illustrates the bounty and the beauty as seen through
local writers from beasts and bees to birds, bay to
sea, the East River to Montauk and everything in
between.

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SHOP ‘TIL
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with Maria Tennariello

jewelry box and apron with your Pandora jewelry
purchase of $250 during the month of October.
Hurry, it’s while supplies last…
The good news at Hildreth’s Home Goods,
Main Street, Southampton for Halloween is their
huge collection of costumes for boys and girls in
various sizes, themes and colors, accessories, decorations and so much more. There are also costumes for all occasions from Halloween costumes
to dress-up costumes, to dance and theatrical costumes. Visit and browse their site together with
the kids in your life, hildreths.com. You will love
the quality and prices.
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There is a Final Liquidation Days Sale in
progress at Mill Patio, 116 North Sea Road,
Southampton and everything must go! Look for
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Life Swapping
By Stacy Dermont
I love the Hamptons at this time of year. The
turning leaves, the crisp breezes, the bargains.
Actively saving money can be a real boost to one’s
health/beauty/fitness regime.
Life for us year-rounders picks up after Labor
Day. Off-season yard sales are the best – they’re not
so picked over and the car traffic is manageable.
I’ve devoted many a Saturday morning to “studies
in indigenous material culture,” also known as yard
saling. What people accumulate fascinates me. And
not infrequently I buy into other peoples’ memories
in the form of books, sturdy kitchen gadgets and
vintage shoes.
I’ve been collecting and bargain hunting since I
was four years old but I never thought that swapping was for me. It’s one thing to try to get a fair
price, but to try to trade stuff for stuff seemed kind
of…messy and emotionally charged.
My neighbor Joan Carlson first invited me to one
of the twice annual Hamptons Clothing Swaps
about five years ago. She said a bunch of women
bring their old clothes and some finger foods to
someone’s living room and “have a ball.” I didn’t get
it.
It sounded like mostly older women were involved
– since they’d been at it for almost 30 years. I figured that would mean that nothing would fit me,
because I have my father’s shoulders.
Finger foods frequently tip the scale when I’m
deciding whether or not to attend an event – but I’ve
long made it a practice not to mix food with digging
through second hand goods.
So I gave it a pass…but I really admire Joan. I
often see her at yard sales. She has an extensive col-

collection of naïve art and great personal style. She
typically wears colorful ‘80s sweaters with bright,
chunky necklaces and funky baseball caps. I love it,
she wore me down.
It was better than I could have imagined! Women
of all shapes and sizes do not fold anything neatly –
they DUMP big plastic bags of clothes into a huge
heap on the floor and everyone DIGS in. From prom
gowns to riding pants to disco dresses to aprons –
it’s all free. I scored a wild black and white skirt
that looks like a Rorschach test. I wear it about once
a week – it would be all worn out by now if it wasn’t ‘70s polyester. I also picked up a couple of little
velvet dresses for my favorite intern. I brought a lot
of stuff to the swap that I couldn’t stand anymore –
much to the delight of my fellow “diggers.”
This is the Hamptons at our best – making our
own fun!
Bargain hunting is no fad, it’s here to stay. I know
that MANY people are eagerly awaiting the opening
of the new 20-dealer antique store on Henry Street
in Southampton. It will be open in time for the holidays – and I’m not shy about giving vintage items
as gifts – but this place promises to also carry flowers, new gift items and (my all-time fave) bees wax
candles from Blossom Meadow!
You’re also saving the environment when you
save money by buying second hand. The big R’s –
Reduce, Re-use, Recycle, get equal time. Reducing
consumption of new products means reducing the
energy and waste involved in manufacturing.
Buying second hand is Re-use by definition. When
you buy old stuff for a new use that’s Recycling.
So keep it up, Hamptonites, I’ll see you at the next
swap.

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and treats merchandise that has filled their
shelves just in time for Halloween. You can go
batty with their spellbinding entertaining ideas
that include party items, ornaments, harvest holiday décor, and Christmas previews. The store is
stocked to the rafters with their unusual glassware, dinnerware, candles and candle holders,
rugs, furniture, furnishings and accessories,
There are always sale items here, you just have to
browse and find them…
HGC (Hamptons Gym Corp.), Southampton,
Sag Harbor and East Hampton locations, is having a special Fall Sample Sale on new gym membership. Look for 30% off seniors, $249 student’s
one year, non-prime one year, and save 50% off
daily passes or try three classes free. Call 631725-0707 for locations and info.
Celebrating the arrival of fall, at Whitmore’s
(retail and wholesale), 80 Route 114, East
Hampton, look for a cool 50% off all above ground
plant material. Some of my personal favorites are
also on sale including the “Burning Bush”
Rhododendron, Boxwood, White Pine, Pee Gee
Hydrangea, Green Giant Arborvitae, and many
other varieties in stock. Get going, soon we will be
shopping for Christmas trees!
Until next week. Ciao and happy fall shopping.
If you have any questions or your shop is having
sales, new inventory or re-opening for the season,
my readers want to hear about it. E-mail me at:
Shoptil@danspapers.com I will be happy to get the
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SIMPLE
ART OF
COOKING
by Silvia Lehrer

The leaves are falling, the wind is blowing and even
though temperatures are still fairly moderate during
the day, the night temperature tells me it’s time to
bring in my pots of fresh leafy herbs. “Put them in a
cool room facing north where there is a fair amount of
light,” says Larry Halsey of the Green Thumb in Water
Mill. Happily, with Larry’s suggestion, I will have the
pleasure of rosemary, sage and thyme to cook with
well into the winter. Basil, tarragon and parsley will
just have to wait until next summer. My chives have
been growing in a whisky barrel ever since we moved
here about 20 years ago, and this perennial just keeps
coming back.
My Italian parsley went into a double recipe of
Giuliano Bugialli’s malloreddus in scallion tomato
sauce where I used some of those sauce tomatoes I’ve
written about, enough for 3 to 4 dinners (for 2) after
freezing. Pesto is the practical way to go to use up the
basil in your garden and that’s a good thing. Just
divide and freeze then dress your pasta for a taste of
summer in winter. But did you know you could also
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the rescue with this helpful information. Simply wipe
the leaves with a paper towel, but do not wash.
Alternate kosher salt and basil leaves in a mason jar
until the jar is full. Cover the top layer of basil with a
layer of salt. Basil, preserved this way will lose its
green color but it preserves all of its flavor. Keep the
jar in the refrigerator tightly closed. Use wherever
basil may be called for in sauces, braises and stews.
PESTO SAUCE IN THE FOOD PROCESSOR
Prepare sauce and mix with cooked fettuccine,
boiled potatoes or gnocchi. The sauce can be prepared
ahead and refrigerated or placed in the freezer. If
freezing the sauce do not add the butter and cheese
until ready to use it.
Serves 4-5
For the pesto
4-5 cups fresh basil leaves, rinse and gently pat dry
3-4 cloves garlic
1/3 cup pignoli (pine) cuts
Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper
1/2-2/3 cups extra virgin olive oil
1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
2 tablespoons butter, softened
To use for pasta or gnocchi
1 pound fettuccine, homemade or quality storebought
2 tablespoons kosher salt for the cooking water
1. Pack basil leaves, without crushing them, into a
measuring cup. Set aside.
2. Put the garlic cloves into work bowl of food processor fitted with steel knife or into a blender and process

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until mixture is smooth. Can be prepared ahead.
Refrigerate for up to 3-4 days or freeze in a tightly covered container.
4. When ready to sauce your pasta, potatoes or gnocchi, bring the pesto sauce to room temperature and
stir in the cheese and butter.
Note: When cooking pasta or gnocchi and will use
the pesto sauce add 2 to 3 tablespoons of the pasta
cooking water to stir into the pesto to lighten the
sauce.
MALLOREDDUS IN
SCALLION TOMATO SAUCE
Malloreddus is short ridged pasta from Sardinia. If
not available, cavatelli is a good substitute.
Serves 4 to 6
3 scallions, trimmed, white and light green parts
2 medium-large cloves garlic
About 20 sprigs Italian parsley, leaves only
2 ounces pancetta in one piece
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 1/2 pounds fresh ripe tomatoes or the equivalent
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chopped scallions, garlic and parsley to the skillet with
the pancetta and add the tomatoes. Season with salt
and pepper to taste and cook at a brisk simmer for 15
to 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.

To serve: 12 to 15 basil leaves torn into thirds
4 tablespoons freshly ground Pecorino Sardo
1. Line up the scallions on a cutting board and thinly slice, finely chop the garlic and parsley. Or you may
put all three ingredients in the work bowl of a food
processor and pulse to chop together being careful not
to puree them. Cut the pancetta into tiny pieces.
2. Place a 10-inch skillet with the oil over medium
heat and when the oil is warm add the chopped ingredients. Saute for several minutes until tender and
transfer to a side dish. Add the pancetta and saute
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3. Meanwhile bring a large saucepan of water to the
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Cover the pot, return to the boil then cook, with pot
uncovered for 9 to 12 minutes until “al dente” or
according to package instructions. Ladle about 1/4 cup
pasta water into the sauce then drain the pasta.
Transfer pasta to a warm serving bowl; pour the sauce
over, mix very well along with the basil. Sprinkle with
cheese and a twist of black pepper over each serving.
Adapted from Giuliano Bugialli’s newsletter, 1990.

1. Wash the leaves in a salad spinner and spin dry.
Bring a pot of water to a boil, add the basil and blanch
for 30 seconds. Drain and pat dry on paper towels.

BASIL OIL
Make like a professional chef and accent a salad or
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and pour in the remaining oil. Stir to mix. Shake well
and store at room temperature for 2 days before using.

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Rowdy Hall in East Hampton will hold their tenth
annual “Rowdyween” party on Oct. 31 at 8 p.m. A $30
admission includes one complimentary drink, passed
hors d’oeuvres, drink specials, $5 drafts and well
drinks, and live music by Little Head Thinks. There
will be $500 in prizes for the best costumes. Purchase
tickets in advance for $25 by calling 631-324-8555.
Indian Wells Tavern in Amagansett now offers
football specials at the bar every Sunday and Monday
night during the games. All beers on draft are $4 by
the pint. All bar menu items such as Tavern wings,
Asian potstickers, and artichoke and spinach dip, is
$5. For further information call 631-267-0400.
Nick & Toni’s in East Hampton brings back their
Film and Food promotion every Wed., Thurs., and Sun.
night. A two-course dinner is available with a United
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– three to a serving, which was
enough for three of us. The pastry
shell was paper thin – all crunch.
The melted bittersweet chocolate
was the highest quality, and
Pierre’s homemade ice cream was
just sweet enough. This is the
profiterole to beat.
We couldn’t NOT try the chocolate crepe. It had a silky texture,
filled with that delicious melted
chocolate and served with light crème and fresh
berries.
Pierre’s also serves lunch seven days a week, inside
or out. The menu is close to the dinner menu, with the
addition of Steak Hache Americain (eg: burgers).
And the offerings don’t stop there. Next door, Pierre
Photo by Susan M. Galardi

By Susan M. Galardi
After a long week and exhausting weekend, we
found ourselves on Sunday evening at Pierre’s in
Bridgehampton. The simple décor with widely spaced
tables were calming to the eye. The haute French comfort food is calming to the soul.
Just as we were about to try the appetizers, the
lights lowered and soft, live music (acoustic piano,
upright bass and vocalist) started. This is an experience that sooths the savage breast.
We started with a staple of French bistro but something new to Pierre’s menu, Brandade de Morue ($14).
It’s a lovely mixture of salt cod with potato puree, olive
oil, garlic and creme fraiche. Pierre’s version had a
pleasantly lighter, creamier texture, with small
chunks of cod and potato. Add a squeeze of lemon,
spread it on a fresh crouton and you’re set.
The Shrimp Salad ($20) is a masterful combination
of sauteed shrimp, roasted potatoes, garlic confit and
pitted calamata olives served atop a mesclun salad
with a vinaigrette that’s textbook perfect.
For the main courses, we indulged in the Lobster
Fricassee ($40), a 2-pound Maine lobster flambé with
cognac and tarragon. If you’re going to put a rich sauce
on lobster, why settle for butter? This sauce, flecked
with fresh tarragon and lobster caviar, was so delicious, I can’t imagine having steamed lobster without
it. The beast itself was served whole, and it was more
than split, the tail was sliced into manageable segments. It was served with silky/crunchy pommes
frittes, dusted with sea salt and minced parsley.
Long Island duck ($28) was another great dish –
roasted, very tender medium rare duck breast, and a
super tender leg confit with a crunchy skin in a lovely
glaze. It was served with a turnip puree – such a better, lighter choice than whipped potatoes, for example,
and caramelized pearl onions.
The wine list is nicely chosen with good varieties (no
less than three sancerres by the glass). Naturally, the
emphasis is French wines.
Pierre’s serves dinner 7 days a week. A la carte
prices are reasonable, especially entrees. Appetizers
start at $13 for a mesclun salad, and go up to $20 for
beef tartare and the shrimp salad. For main courses,
pastas are in the low $20s. Other “Plats de resistance”
range from $26 for steamed mussels or pan seared
salmon, to $40 for the lobster. Most entrees start in
the mid $20s and stop at $30.
Pierre also has lovely daily entrees that come in at
about 15% less than the regular a la carte menu, and
include Monday’s bouillabasse for $24 (I tried it last
year and loved it), and Friday’s Paella. Another great
deal is the prix fixe, served Sunday through Thursday
all night, and on Friday and Saturday until 6:30. A
two-course prix fixe is just $25, three course is $29,
including dessert.
Speaking of desserts, if you didn’t know, Pierre is a
fifth generation French baker, try a dessert and you’ll
be convinced. At dinner, we tried the profiteroles ($12)

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with a full line of breakfast items
(smoothies,
croissants,
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muffins). Why would you go to
McStarbucks when you could take
100 paces and have an authentic
café au lait and fresh breakfast
pastry? The shop, open daily from
early morning to 8 p.m., also has
sandwiches freshly made that
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pick up freshly made prepared food for dinner, like
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ART
COMMENTARY
by Marion W. Weiss

“Women” at Silas Marder
The Silas Marder Gallery has to be the largest art
venue in the Hamptons, considering that its structure
is basically a barn. It’s also one of the most inventive.
The outdoor film screenings over the past three summers is one example. The small format exhibit last
month is another.
In commemoration of October’s Breast Cancer
Awareness Month, the gallery has again come up with
an imaginative and worthy show, this time by women
artists. The work is varied, coming from both foreign
and East End/New York sources. Moreover, all the
pieces are especially creative in their use of materials
and textures. Simply put, it’s as if the barn door was
left open, and a breath of fresh air blew in.
The gallery setting adds to the arresting presentation. Wood beams and high ceilings complement the
works, which are sparsely arranged and not over-

HONORING
THE ARTIST

by Marion Wolberg Weiss

Randy Smith
Work by this week’s cover artist, Randy Smith, has
been described in several ways, including “NeoImpressionism” and “plein air.” His subject matter
labels him a “bateaux” (boats) artist. All of these labels
are appropriate: the cover image (Main Street, East
Hampton) certainly conveys an impressionistic style
that deviates somewhat with its swirls and spontaneous gestures (notice the Van Gogh-like brush
strokes). It is also painted outdoors, on location. Only
the boats are missing.
On Smith’s website, however, you’ll see boats galore,
also done in a Neo-Impressionistic style; many are
seen from a bird’s-eye-view. They almost appear to
represent boats on the Seine in Paris, but their source
is more unusual than that.
Q: Does your attraction to boats have something to
do with where you live, near Charlottesville, Virginia?
A: We do have a history of ferries, like the Hatton
Ferry, which started going across the James River in
the 1850s. Then there’s the Batteau Festival, which
features flat bottom boats going down the James
River. The first batteau launching was in 1810.
Q: Are you the only artist painting them?
A: I am the only person painting the bateaux; it’s my
25th year of doing them.
Q: I know you also have a penchant for history.
What historical surprises have you encountered in
Virginia?
A: The people worship Thomas Jefferson. They don’t
know or accept that he had problems. They are in

whelming. One exception is Connie Fox’s “Not the Man
Not the Tomato,” done in 1985. The abstract forms,
fragmented as they are, recall a “stream of consciousness”—segments of images from the past bombarding
the canvas.
Kiki Smith’s “Spinster Series 11” is composed of
three, separate, double printed iris works, with a single nude female placed against a black background. In
each of the pieces, a spinning wheel stands in the
room, reminding one of a primal fairy tale. This seems
plausible considering that Smith’s fairy tale sculptures are potent and arresting. Pat Steir’s
“Silverwaterfall,” a five-color screenprint, is a small
version of her large, well-known configurations resembling a glacier or cathedral. The image establishes
subtle rhythm and movement characteristic of her
other works.
Abstract circular shapes are characteristic of
Aurora Robson’s and Sally Egbert’s paintings, but
with a difference: Robson’s forms are pink, perhaps
appropriate to the breast cancer theme; Egbert’s
round configurations are multicolored, resembling
flowers. The circular shape, signifying a female, is
appropriate as well.
A few artists, including Corinne Von Lebusa and
Heather Goodchild, are from other countries. Lebusa’s
drawings (or illustrations) are narrative in nature and
a bit quirky. One work shows a woman lying on the
ground with one leg separated from her body; a man
and woman stand above her. In another drawing, a
man is carrying a woman to bed, although it’s not
major denial (about, for one
thing, his relationship with a
slave). The more I read about
him, the less I like him. He backstabbed George Washington, for
example.
Q: Is there any historical figure of the period that you really
like?
A: Alexander Hamilton. I’ve
been to his house in Harlem at
141 Street; it has a fascinating history. A developer
bought it from Hamilton’s children and then the federal government got their hands on it and had to move
it, next to City College, on a cliff.
Q: You also have a connection to the Civil War.
A: I live near Appomattox and am staying in former
slave quarters. But I have no studio so I paint outdoors, even in the winter.
Q: I assume you didn’t major in history, however.
A: I majored in art at the University of New Mexico.
I got a degree in sculpture, although I was aiming for
a degree in painting, but they didn’t like my paintings.
Q: What was your training after that?
A: I moved to California in 1979 to work as a sculptor, hanging out with the Bay artists. I started painting on the beaches in Santa Cruz and working with
Mark di Suvero.
Q: The beach and water are themes of yours.
A: Yes. We all come from the water. I live near the
water now in Scottsville, and I paint Mecox Beach in
North Carolina.
Q: The water theme extends to this area, too,
although you did a series on the Hampton Classic. A
new work features Bay Street Theatre. In New York,
you painted a tugboat series exhibited at South
Seaport.
A: Yes. And I did some plein air scenes in Port
Jefferson. That was challenging; I slept in a sleeping
bag.
Q: Where would you like to paint, considering the
cultural and historical setting?
A: The Great Wall of China. Certainly.
Randy Smith’s website is: randysmithart.com

Connie Fox “Not the Man Not the Tornado”
quite certain if the couple is coming or going. That
ambiguity is eye-catching and a bit reminiscent of
paintings by Eric Fischl.
Work by Goodchild, a Canadian resident and graduate of Ryerson University, is eye-catching as well, with
her female portraits from the turn-of-the-century done
in hand-dyed felt. The result resembles a patchwork
of images (“The Balanced Life with Flourish 1910”),
the portraits done in tiny silk threads. The craftsmanship is very special and so is the concept.
As an added treat, a short film of Janis Ian singing
at a nightclub plays at the gallery, too. The song is “17,”
a familiar tune for baby boomers. It’s not only an
example of popular culture at the time but brings back
salient memories for listeners after all these years.
This critic included.
“Women” will be on view at the Silas Marder Gallery
until Nov. 21. Call 631-702-2306.

2 Openings, Guild Hall
On Saturday, October 23, the Guild Hall in East
Hampton will host two opening receptions for two
distinctive exhibitions.
On view until January 16 is “Cities of Peace,
Honoring World Cities: Transforming Anguish into
Beauty.” The exhibit is a commemorative body of
work conceived by New York artist Ellen Frank and
produced at her Illumination Atelier. The show will
features nine 6 x 8 foot gold-illuminated works on
linen that are a visual tribute to people and locations around the world. “Through understanding
the history and beauty of these great cities that
have suffered strife, we can participate in the beauty of recovery and peace,” said Frank. The cities represented in the exhibit include Baghdad, Beijing,
Hiroshima, Jerusalem, Kabul, Lhasa, Monrovia,
New York and Sarajevo.
Opening the same day, and on view until
November 23 is a solo show of the work of Elizabeth
Sloan Tyler, winner of the 70th Annual Members
Exhibition 2008, Part I. Tyler moved to Long Island
in the 1980s. Her oil paintings incorporate various
techniques and materials to create atmospheric,
abstract landscapes. According to Tyler, “I try to
interpret the East End’s luminosity through the
translucent layering of color and the fusion of
shapes … I strive to evoke the atmospheric rather
than realistic character of landscape.”
Tyler’s paintings are included in many collections
nationwide. She has exhibited at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York City, the Cork Gallery
at Lincoln Center and the National Academy.
The opening receptions for “Cities of Peace” and
Elizabeth Sloan Tyler are scheduled for Saturday,
October 23. Reception hours are 6 p.m.-8 p.m. for
Guild Hall members and press; and from 7 p.m.-8
p.m. for the general public. Suggested admission is
$7. Guild Hall 158 Main Street, East Hampton.
—Susan Galardi

2010
Check out your winners in
next week’s issue of Dan’s
and be sure to
congratulate your favorites!

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LETTERS
IT’S A SWAMP THING
Dear Dan,
It’s too bad that Ms. Bond didn’t get the humor in
your piece about “Round Swamp Farms.” I certainly
found it amusing. What I don’t find amusing is $18-22
dollars for your generic meat loaf or veal Parmesan.
But hey, what do I know?
Richard Arfin
We got lots of support for RSF. – DR
THANK YOU CONGRESSMAN BISHOP
Dear Dan,
Here’s the story of how Congressman Tim Bishop
and his staff have helped my daughter and me.
I am a survivor of breast cancer, a widow, and a
mother of a girl who has suffered a traumatic brain
injury. My story began in July 2003 when I was diagnosed with a lump in my left breast, and no health
insurance. Naturally, the impact of being told that you
have cancer was crushing to you mind, your body, and
your spirit, let alone being without health insurance.
You think, ‘I’m going to die,’ you feel it as well. How
does one even begin with nothing but a diagnosis?
I contacted the American Cancer Society after being
given a phone number for their advocacy program.
They put me in touch with the Women’s Health
Partnership which functioned as a bridge between the
time of diagnoses and obtaining temporary Medicaid,
so that I was able to start testing and treatment...I
lined up surgery, reconstruction and chemo and followup care. That was seven years ago.
Since that time, while on chemo, my husband died
suddenly, and my father died the next year of

Alzheimer’s disease, and then one year later, my
beloved daughter Amanda, who was 20 years old, left
to go to the gym one evening and was hit by a truck
and pushed into a telephone pole and almost killed.
She still suffers today as I do from these lifetime
injuries. The pain is unbelievable.
What is even more unbelievable is the help that
came from Congressman Tim Bishop, my congressman, and lucky for me that I’m a resident of District
#1 here on Long Island. The help that came from him
personally, and his office staff, the attention to detail,
the promptness of their actions all helped both myself
and my daughter to obtain the needed medical care
and our Social Security benefits that were due to us
that many, many times are very difficult to obtain and
very slow to process.
The personal care and time that came from Tim
Bishop amazed me, because all that you hear today
from so many people, is how public figures don’t really care about you, they only care for themselves and
keeping their position. Not true with Congressman
Bishop, not true at all.
Without the help from him and his staff, I believe
that I would have lost my home, not obtained health
benefits in a timely fashion which could have led to
disaster for both me and for my daughter, and I would
never have been able to receive our Social Security
benefits in time to save ourselves financially.
This man actually cares from his heart, and has
done nothing but spend his time fighting for us real
people. Everyday Americans, everyday Americans who
struggle to make a decent living and also encounter
problems, sometimes life-threatening problems such
as ours was.

POLICE BLOTTER
Escobar?
A man in East Hampton was
arrested after police executed a
search warrant and recovered
several ounces of cocaine, scales
and approximately $3,000 in
cash. The man was charged
with criminal possession of a
controlled substance in the 3rd
degree and criminally using
drug paraphernalia in the 2nd
degree.
8 Times
A man towing a trailer in
East Hampton was pulled over
after police noticed that one of
his trailer lights was out. When
police asked the man for his
license, they discovered that
the man was no longer allowed
to operate a car after losing his
license due to suspension on
eight
separate
occasions.
Perhaps this ninth time will be the charm. He was
arrested and processed.
No More E-mails
A man in Southampton was warned for the last
time to stop e-mailing his ex-girlfriend. The man,
who has a restraining order against him, didn’t
seem to understand that if you send threatening
e-mails to a woman involving, among other things,
killing her, police tend to take that seriously, and
tend to arrest you.
He Took My Dinghy!
A man in East Hampton reported that somebody stole a motor off the back of an 8-foot dinghy

that was on the beach behind
the residence that he is the
caretaker
for.
The
man
explained that his dinghy had
not been stolen, it was just his
motor, his dinghy seems to be
doing okay. Currently, his
dinghy is out in the open still.
The dinghy, roughly eight feet
in length, is a pretty good-sized
dinghy. Now that it’s cold out,
the man’s dinghy is…oh you get
the idea.
Shelter Island
Old Man McGumbus saw an
UFO.
Bad Boyfriend
Southampton police arrested
a man from Florida after he was
accused of stealing thousands of
dollars from his girlfriend’s
father while living at his home
in Southampton last summer.
The young man, who is 26, stole four credit cards
belonging to the father and used them to make
purchases that were not approved by the father, as
well as $500 in cash and forged two cashed checks,
one for $1,000 and one for $3,000. Probably not a
good way to get your girlfriend’s father’s approval.
Deer Hit
A driver smashed into a deer in Southampton
last week, sending the deer to deer heaven. The
car was a wreck, but the driver of the vehicle was
okay and did not have any injuries.
–By David Lion Rattiner

Send your letters to
askdan@danspapers.com
(e-mails only, please)
I have since proudly become a member of Tim’s
Breast Cancer Advisory Board. I now have the opportunity to have our quarterly meetings and find out the
latest details on pending bills, lobbying for funds to
support the bills, and news from doctors on the board
on the latest in cancer care and research. Also, I
research and investigate issues which I feel are of
importance and get to share them with his board.
My congressman is the most decent hard-working
man that I know, and I am so very thankful to him for
all his help, and the help of his staff.
To just say that I am so proud of Tim would feel like
I was saying too little, but I am so very proud and privileged to work alongside him, to know that he is
always going to be here, fighting for us all, and just to
know him is an honor that I will always cherish.
Sincerely,
Lorraine A. DiCandia
IS AGE JUST A NUMBER?
Dear Dan,
The fall days are now on the doorstep. The cool
nights are good for sleeping, and the day-trippers are
all gone for another year. The leaves will soon show
their fall colors and we will wait for the holidays. Life
seems to fly by when you’re old. As a child you had
trouble waiting for the next day. Sleeping was a waste
of time and play was the name of the game. Now, play
is not so important any more. You can’t sleep all night
long and you can’t eat anything. You have doctors
appointments up the butt and a new car is not so
important. Your phone rings all the time. Getting to it
is a pain. It is always ringing when you are doing
something important. You really don’t wish to answer
it but it might important.
All the television shows stink and have no value.
The news is very upsetting, and all the politicians’ lies
are very obvious.
Where did the time go?
When did I start getting old?
Am I old or just feeling sorry for myself?
I guess I’ll just have to get out more and maybe if I
hang out with some real young people the spark of life
will come back. Who knows maybe they will listen to
what I have to say about life.
Well, maybe not.
P.J. DooDah
Florida
We listen. – DR
INTERN SAYS: “THANKS, DAN’S PAPERS!”
DEAR DAN,
My name is Evie Saloman and I interned at Dan’s
Papers two summers ago as well as three summers
ago.
I was in the area and I just thought I would drop by
and say hello. I also wanted to thank you again for the
experiences I was given while working at the paper.
With my published works, I was able to land an
internship on CNN this past summer, at “The
Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.” I most definitely
would not have been able to do that without your help.
Thanks again for everything and I hope you enjoyed
your summer.
Evie Salomon
Call me if you get on Oprah. – DR

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